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Correspondence: Sabina Rinaldi, Email:rinaldis@iarc.fr
I.R., S.R., G.T.M., G.I.S., C.P., A.C.Ro., M.L.G. and P.L.P. designed the study.
G.T.M., A.A.L., I.A.C., G.I.S., M.B., C.P., A.C.Ro. and M.L.G. collected the data and sample materials.
P.L.P. and M.O. designed the specific protocols for IHC and genetic analyses.
P.L.P., M.O. and M.G.L. conducted molecular analyses.
C.B. assembled the database.
M.H. analyzed the data.
M.H., I.R., S.R., G.T.M., G.I.S., C.P., A.C.Ro., M.L.G. and M.J.G. interpreted the data.
All authors participated in writing the manuscript.
All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
The author wish to thank the substantial support provided by the research nurses and health workers as well as Tracy Lignini, Dacia Cristin, Cecile Le Duc, Jordi de Battle, and Talita Duarte-Salles, Ana Cristina Ocampo for the logistic and data basis development, and Vivian Viallon, who provided statistical support.
The authors also wish to thank the women participating in the project, for their time and commitment.
The funders had no role in study design, data collection, and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Ana Cecilia Rodriguez was part of the Proyecto Guanacaste when this work was carried out.
The authors declare no competing interests.
The study is funded by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Ibero-American Programme for the Development of Science and Technology (CYTED), COLCIENCIAS (grant n°1115–569–348899), Universidad de Antioquia (grants CPT-1801, SIIU-2019–25272 and Estrategia de Sostenibilidad 2013–2014 to Group Infection and Cancer).
For MH, the work reported in this paper was undertaken during the tenure of a postdoctoral fellowship awarded by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, financed by La Ligue contre le cancer.
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