Blacks have trouble clearing cervical cancer virus HPV

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

CHICAGO -- Provocative new research might help explain why black women are so much more likely than whites to develop and die from cervical cancer: They seem to have more trouble clearing HPV, the virus that causes the disease.

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