BALTIMORE—Stress and depression appear to play a significant role in whether a woman with HPV can clear her infection or not. HPV that lingers in a woman’s system eventually can lead to cervical cancer (abstract 2372.4), according to research presented at the 2016 annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies.
Researchers from the University of California (Los Angeles and San Francisco) have been following 333 women since 2000. The women were about