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Do high risk hpv strain alone can cause cancer or it needs some other factor too for developing cancer?
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HPV alone causes cancer; nothing else is necessary. Even with the "high risk" types of HPV, the vast majority of infections do not lead to cancer.
Answered 4/29/2023
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Cancer development is a result of the interplay of may things not fully understood. We can only predict a higher chance of it associated with some strains
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