Cervical Cancer Awareness Month
2025-01-20
HPV & Cervical Cancer
The persistence of the infection caused by one or several of the so-called high-risk Human Papillomavirus (HPVHR), namely the HPV: 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, 66 and 68), associated with behavioral or host-related cofactors, is necessary for CC to develop.
These small naked DNA viruses are very resistant and very contagious. The infection is usually quickly self-limiting, but the persistence of high-risk HPV within the epithelium, particularly HPV16, is responsible for a course leading to cervical cancer, but also other ENT cancers those of the ana-genital tract HPV 16 and HPV 18 alone are responsible for 80% of CCs and 60% of pre-cancerous lesions in France.