How many people with HPV eventually suffer from cervical cancer, in percentages?

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Very low, because HPV infection is common. So, cervical cancer is a very rare outcome of a small infection. The problem is that we do not know how to predict which person with the HPV virus will get cervical cancer. We can screen and prevent but we do not know how to predict.

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