56 percent of young adults in a new sexual relationship infected with HPV
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 11:22
in Psychology & Sociology
A groundbreaking study of couples led by Professor Eduardo Franco, Director of McGill University's Cancer Epidemiology Unit, in collaboration with a team of colleagues from McGill and Universite de Montreal/Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal (CHUM), found more than half (56 per cent) of young adults in a new sexual relationship were infected with human papillomavirus (HPV). Of those, nearly half (44 per cent) were infected with an HPV type that causes cancer...