Hey @suesa, are you familiar with the people from the University of Jena?
They have developed an epigenetic screening test to estimate/determine in advance whether a HPV infection will also induce cervical cancer. It can detect the characteristic genetic alteration caused by the virus which can lead to cancer and is supposedly very accurate:
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That's really neat! Thanks for the link :)
its have been great explanations i have ever seen about virus well done and thank you for sharing
You're welcome ;)
Of course it does not prevent the cancer but time and information advantages are always valuable when dealing with it. In addition if the test proves to be very specific (that is giving few false positive results) one can avoid many unnecessary operations to remove potentially cancerous tissue which in fact is only HPV infected but not cancerous.