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Article: HPV infection screening is important for HIV MSM.
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- Same-Day Surgery
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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HPV infection screening is important for HIV MSM
HIV & HPV connection studied
Infectious diseases researchers have observed some interesting trends involving patients with human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and cancer, as well as HIV seroconversion.
Ear, nose, and throat physicians recently have been seeing increasing numbers of patients with pharyngeal and throat cancer, and their cases are outside the standard presentation of older patients who have long drinking and smoking histories, an investigator says.
These younger patients often were infected with anal human papillomavirus and had acquired HPV infection in the mouth, says ...