CORRESPONDENCE Re: Human Papillomavirus Infection and Incidence of

cause cervical cancer and some other types of epithelial cancers. HPV types from the phylogenic beta genus (beta-PVs), formerly known as epidermodys-plasia verruciformis – associated HPV types, are frequently detected in non-melanoma skin cancers, especially in squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs). An etiologic relationship with beta-PV infection is suspected. In recent years, a small number of epi-demiologic studies investigated the asso-ciation between beta-PV infection and the development of nonmelanoma skin can-cer. In studies that assessed antibodie