The causal role of human papillomavirus infections in non-anogenital cancers. It's time to ask for the functional evidence.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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2. Infectious agents and progression from Barrett's oesophagus to oesophageal adenocarcinoma: a nested case-control study.British journal of cancer · 2025
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3. The Role of Biomarkers in HPV-Positive Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Towards Precision Medicine.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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4. Serologic Response to Human Papillomavirus Genotypes Among Unvaccinated Women: Findings From the HITCH Cohort Study.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2023
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5. [New progress in diagnosis and treatment of HPV-positive oropharyngeal carcinoma].Lin chuang er bi yan hou tou jing wai ke za zhi = Journal of clinical otorhinolaryngology head and neck surgery · 2022
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6. Oral Papillomatosis: Its Relation with Human Papilloma Virus Infection and Local Immunity-An Update.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022
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7. Accuracy of high-risk HPV DNA PCR, p16BMC infectious diseases · 2022
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8. The Involvement of Human Papilloma Virus in Gastrointestinal Cancers.Cancers · 2022
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9. Prognostic significance of human papillomavirus 16 viral load level in patients with oropharyngeal cancer.Cancer science · 2021
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10. Sensitivity and Specificity of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) 16 Early Antigen Serology for HPV-Driven Oropharyngeal Cancer: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis.Cancers · 2021
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11. Overexpression of p16Frontiers in oncology · 2019
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12. Biological relevance of human papillomaviruses in vulvar cancer.Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc · 2017
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13. Biomarkers in anal cancer: from biological understanding to stratified treatment.British journal of cancer · 2017
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14. Factors associated with the high prevalence of oesophageal cancer in Western Kenya: a review.Infectious agents and cancer · 2017
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Corrections and comments

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  Mucosal alpha-papillomaviruses are not associated with esophageal squamous cell carcinomas: Lack of mechanistic evidence from South Africa, China and Iran and from a world-wide meta-analysis.2016

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Funding

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Abstract

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