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Prevention and Treatment of Cancer servix

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

HPV and cervical cancer

Cancer servixThe main cause of cervical cancer is infection with HPV. HPV is the sexually transmitted disease more frequent today.

The man acts as a carrier of the disease without even knowing it, in most cases.

Infection occurs from sexual contact of a woman and a man carrying the virus that sowed in the lining of the cervix.

In most cases the defense systems, the agency charged with eliminating the virus and the infection resolves without sequelae.
But the misfortune is that the HPV virus has mechanisms to attach to epithelial cells and transform them into malignant cells.

The virus has a protein capsule that allows you to adhere to the epithelial cells of the cervix.

Cervical cancer begins to develop when the virus manages to insert its genes into the genes of the infected cell, so the virus remains while the cell is alive. (more…)

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