Human papillomavirus infection

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a DNA virus that causes a variety of conditions including common warts, condyloma acuminata (anogenital warts), and multiple malignancies involving the squamous epithelium. HPV is a unique oncogenic infectious agent that causes cervical cancer, the second most common cancer in women worldwide.1 In addition to cervical cancer, HPV is responsible for a large proportion of penile cancer, vaginal/vulvar cancer, anal cancer, and oropharyngeal cancer. The disease burden is significant with HPV-associated cancers totaling 35,000 new diagnoses in 2009, 3% of all US cancer diagnoses.
Source: Disease a Month - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Source Type: research