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Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
Volume 14, Number 1, 19-27, DOI: 10.1007/s11019-010-9285-9
Erik Malmqvist, Gert Helgesson, Johannes Lehtinen, Kari Natunen and Matti Lehtinen
Abstract
Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the world’s most common sexually transmitted infection. It is a prerequisite for cervical cancer, the second most common cause of death in cancer among women worldwide, and is also believed to cause other anogenital and head and neck cancers.