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  • Q&A with Australian Health Practitioners

    Are there different types of cervical cancer?

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  • Associate Professor Stephen WeinsteinDirector of Pathology, Gold Coast Hospital Campus View Profile

    There are different types, but the most commone type, which accounts for over 90 percent of cervical cancers, is the so-called squamous cell carcinoma. There are a number of rarer varieties, like adenocarcinoma, but squamous cell carcinoma is the one we normally mean when we refer to the generic term “cervical cancer.”

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