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While all causes of cervical dysplasia are not known, most cases of cervical cancer and severe dyplasia are caused by infection of the cervix with a persistent, high-risk strain of human papilloma virus (HPV).
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The most common method for diagnosing cervical dysplasia is the Pap smear, which was invented by the American researcher George Papanicolaou in the 1950s. Due to the effectiveness of the Pap smear in detecting cervical problems, the incidence of c...
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Genital human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is a common sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by human papillomavirus. This is a group of more than one hundred viruses, at least thirty-five of which can infect the genital tissues. HPV is spre...
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