| a population-based seroepidemiological study of cervical cancer. | the epidemiology of cervical cancer indicates the presence of a sexually transmitted risk factor, attributable at least in part to infection with human papillomavirus (hpv) type 16 or 18. we performed a seroepidemiological study of hpv and cervical cancer in the counties of västerbotten and norrbotten in northern sweden, a low-risk area for cervical cancer. sera from 94 cases of incident cervical cancer were matched against 188 age- and sex-matched controls derived from a population-based blood ... | 1994 | 8261434 |