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Anal Cancer Screening At Truman Health Services, Peter D. Tran, Harshdeep Babbar
Anal Cancer Screening At Truman Health Services, Peter D. Tran, Harshdeep Babbar
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Anal Papanicoloau Screening at Truman Clinic
Anal cancer is a squamous cell cancer associated with human papillomavirus (HPV), the same virus that is associated with cervical cancer. Although vaccination against HPV has been shown to be effective in reducing overall rates of infection, the number of new anal cancer cases has been rising for many years. In HIV-infected men and women, the incidence is even higher of anal cancer than in the general population. Current rates in an HIV-infected MSM population have been estimated to be as high as 70-144 per 100,000, with some studies of HIV-infected individuals showing that …