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What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About HPV and Abnormal PAP Smears
by Joel Palefsky, Jody Handley
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Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing; 1 (June 15 2002)
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HPV 101
An estimated 75 percent of sexually active adults have or will have transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV) at some point in their lifetimes. Over 75 percent of women have never even heard of HPV. It's important to understand that HPV should not be

HPV: Bare-Bones Basics
First and foremost, I want you to understand that HPV only infects the skin, and the term in medicalese for skin is epithelium. The skin, or epithelium, lines not only our whole body, but also inside some of our internal organs.


About the Author

Joel Palefsky, M.D.

Dr. Palefsky is a professor at the University of California San Francisco and a leading HPV expert. Dr. Joel Palefsky and Jody Handley both live in San Francisco, CA..

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