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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Cancer. 2012 Jul 2;131(9):1969–1982. doi: 10.1002/ijc.27650

Table 1.

Cancers associated with high-risk HPV infection and with HPV16 and 18 infection.

Number of cancers
Site Attributable
to hrHPV
Of which
HPV16/18
Total Attributable
to hrHPV
Attributable
to HPV16/18
Cervix 100% 2 71% 4 529,500 19 529,500 375,945
Penis 47% 9 74% 9 26,300 23 12,361 9,098
Vulva 40% 95 93% 95 30,000 23 12,000 11,100
Vagina 70% 95 93% 95 15,000 23 10,500 9,750
Anus (female) 84% 95 94% 95 15,900 23 13,356 12,561
Anus (male) 84% 95 94% 95 14,5900 23 12,180 11,455
Oro-pharynx (female) 19% 96 89% 13 12,900 97 2,394 2,138
Oro-pharynx (male) 19% 96 89% 13 48,900 97 9,291 8,299

All sites (females) 9.4% 6.8% 6,044,710 567,750 411,494

All sites (males) 0.5% 0.4% 6,617,844 33,832 28,852

All sites (both sexes) 4.8% 3.5% 12,662,554 601,582 440,346

hrHPV: high-risk human papillomavirus

weighted average of region-specific estimates (derived from de Martel et al, 2012)96