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Genital tract cancers are linked with infectious organisms as a possible causative agent. Rigoni-Stern in 1842 and Gagnon early in this century related cervical cancer to some factor involved with sexual intercourse, suggesting that the disease has a venereal or infectious nature. Virtually all of the agents ‘infecting’ the lower genital tract have been implicated as potential causative agents in cervical cancer.
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Wilbanks, G.D. (1988). Cervical Cancer — An Infectious Disease?. In: Stegner, HE., Coppleson, M. (eds) Colposcopy in Diagnosis and Treatment of Preneoplastic Lesions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72761-0_3
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