HPV virus helps cervical and head and neck cancer grow and spread
Sunday, November 2, 2008 - 15:21
in Health & Medicine
The human papillomavirus (HPV) allows infected cervical and head and neck cancer cells to maintain internal molecular conditions that make the cancers resistant to therapy and more likely to grow and spread, resulting in a poor prognosis for patients, researchers with UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Centre found...
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