Meet the editor

Rajamanickam Rajkumar is a scientists on the front lines of cervical cancer and HPV prevention and control. He has an MD in Community Medicine and a PhD in Cancer Epidemiology. He is currently a professor at Meenakshi Medical College Kanchipuram, India, and a PhD mentor at many medical universities. He was the principal investigator for one of the largest cervical cancer screening programs in India with technical support from

the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a specialized agency of the World Health Organization. He conducted the first study in South India on the community prevalence of HPV. He has been trained in colposcopy and cancer epidemiology in France, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Singapore. He is a consultant to the Ohio State University Medical University in Cervical Cancer Screening and an honorary member of the Society for Colposcopy & Cervical Pathology of Singapore (SCCPS). Since the start of 2020, he has served as Associate Research Director and Member Secretary of the Institutional Ethics Committee of Meenakshi Medical College. Dr. Rajkumar has won several awards, including Best Teacher and Researcher from the Meenakshi Academy of Higher Education and Research, India, in 2013, and Excellence in Research from the Institute of Scholars, India, in 2019.

Contents

and Prospects

*by Suchibrata Das*

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 21**

**Chapter 3 31**

**Chapter 4 63**

**Chapter 5 91**

**Chapter 6 105**

*by Șerban Vifor Gabriel Berteșteanu, Raluca Grigore, Alexandru Nicolaescu* 

The Importance of the Problem of HPV-Associated Diseases in KhMAO-Ugra: Vaccination of Adolescents against HPV - Problems

*by Larisa Dmitrievna Belotserkovtseva and Yulia Igorevna Mayer*

Human Papillomavirus Infection: Management and Treatment

Human Papillomavirus Infections in Pregnant Women and Its Impact on Pregnancy Outcomes: Possible Mechanism of Self-Clearance *by Sanchita Roy Pradhan, Sutapa Mahata, Dipanwita Ghosh, Pranab Kumar Sahoo, Sinjini Sarkar, Ranita Pal and Vilas D. Nasare*

HPV and Cervical Cancer Control Programs: Effective Translation

HPV-Positive Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma

*and Mihnea Cojocărița-Condeescu*

HPV Vaccines: Myths and Facts

of Knowledge into Practice *by Rajamanickam Rajkumar*

*by Mehmet Faruk Kose and Emine Karabuk*
