1984 CE
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A new type of papillomavirus DNA, its presence in genital cancer biopsies and in cell lines derived from cervical cancer.
Zur Hausen and colleagues discovered HPV18 as a cause of cervical cancer. With the discovery of HPV18, and HPV16, which zur Hausen and team discovered in 1983, zur Hausen discovered the viruses causing about 75% of hu…