%0 Journal Article
%T HPV infection and carcinogenesis in the upper aero-digestive tract
%A Castillo
%A Andr¨¦s
%J Colombia M¨¦dica
%D 2011
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X recently, molecular and epidemiological studies have shown an etiologic role for human papillomavirus (hpv) in a subset of upper aero-digestive tract (uadt) cancers in women and men. oral hpv infections acquired through oral sex seems to be the main risk factor for hpv-associated oral cancers. the high-risk type hpv-16 was the most prevalent infection hpv-positive in most oral cancers. therefore, the prophylactic vaccine against hpv-16 could prevent hpv associated oral cancer if the vaccine were demonstrated to be capable of preventing oral hpv-16 infection. thus, these findings have created new potential opportunities for the primary prevention of oral cancers.
%K human papillomavirus
%K carcinogenesis
%K squamous cell carcinomas
%K the upper aero-digestive tract.
%U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1657-95342011000200015&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en