A new Lancet study shows that cervical cancer screening uptake was significantly higher when self-sampling kits for human papillomavirus (HPV) were mailed to the under-screened population of women in the US.

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Four in every five people will become infected with the common human papillomavirus, or HPV, at some point in their lives.

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They can be caused by poxviruses but are more commonly the result of papillomavirus infections.

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While high-risk types of HPV (human papillomavirus) are more commonly associated with cervical cancer, the virus can lead to cancer in men, including in the penis, anus, head or neck.

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