Cervical cancer

Cervical cancer begins when healthy cells on the surface of the cervix change or become infected with certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) and grow out of control to become a tumor. HPV causes more than 90% of all cases of cervical cancer and a long-term infection of HPV on the cervix can result in a cancerous tumor that can be malignant and spread to other parts of the body. Cervical cancer typically takes over 10 to 20 years to develop from precancerous changes. The two main types of cervical cancers are squamous cell carcinoma (80% to 90%), which starts in the cells on the outer surface covering of the cervix, and adenocarcinoma (10% to 20%), which starts in the glandular cells that line the lower birth canal in the internal portion of the cervix. Cervical cancer is both the fourth-most common type of cancer and the fourth-most common cause of death from cancer in women worldwide.

WHO - Cervicial cancer.

Differential abundance and machine learning analysis

This section presents the disease-specific results of the differential abundance and machine learning analyses. The analyses are reported for three comparisons: 1) disease vs. all other diseases, 2) disease vs. diseases from the same class, and 3) disease vs. healthy samples.

Disease vs All other
Disease vs Class
Disease vs Healthy