Vaccination Programme Aims to Eradicate HPV for Generation of Women; Health Wales Is Highlighting the Cream of Young Research Talent in a Series of Articles about and by the Welsh Crucible Researchers. Dr Ned Powell Is Studying How a Common Virus Can Cause Cancer

Byline: Dr Ned Powell

CERVICAL cancer, the third most common cancer in women, is caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV) - an extremely common sexuallytransmitted virus that most of us will get at some point in our life.

In most cases HPV infection is completely harmless and the body gets rid of it in less than a year without any lasting effects.

But in a small number of people, the infection persists and may lead to cancer, sometimes many years later.

The work I do has three parts - we investigate how common HPV infection is in the population (around a third of Welsh women in their twenties have a current HPV infection); we explore the basic …

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Publication information: Article title: Vaccination Programme Aims to Eradicate HPV for Generation of Women; Health Wales Is Highlighting the Cream of Young Research Talent in a Series of Articles about and by the Welsh Crucible Researchers. Dr Ned Powell Is Studying How a Common Virus Can Cause Cancer. Contributors: Not available. Newspaper title: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales). Publication date: August 8, 2011. Page number: 25. © 2009 MGN Ltd. COPYRIGHT 2011 Gale Group.

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