Human Papillomavirus infection and cervical screening in older women

This book is a review of the most recent evidence about the HPV infection in the female lower genital tract and its consequences in older women. Older women have a special features that make us see the HPV infection from other perspective. Latency and reactivation of HPV infection in postmenopausal women is a possibility to consider and should be evaluated in the design of cancer screening strategies. This book shows the evolution and management of diseases HPV-related in older women, as well as the impact of prophylactic vaccines against HPV in these women.

About the author

Directora do Women's Health Institute. Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Espanha Professor Associado na OBS&GYN na Universidade Complutense de Madrid Académico correspondente da Real Academia Nacional de Medicina de Espanha. Mestre em Gestão de Cuidados de Saúde Especialista em Cirurgia Ginecológica Robótica Membro do Conselho da Sociedade de Oncologia Ginecológica.

Product details

• Authors: Pluvio J Coronado, Pluvio J. Coronado
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9783659815379
• ISBN: 978-3-659-81537-9
• No. of pages: 92
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine