Cervical cancer and pre-cancer cervical growths require single HPV protein

Monday, September 17, 2012 - 20:00 in Health & Medicine

Human papillomavirus (HPV) has long been implicated in cervical cancer, but details of how it happens have remained a mystery. Now researchers have found that a single HPV protein is required for cervical cancer and even pre-cancer growths in the cervix to survive.

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