... Assistance Inc., Bangladesh • Roberto Rivera, MD, Family Health International, USA • Pramilla Senanayake, MBBS, DTPH, PhD, Global Forum for Health Research, Sri Lanka and UK • C. Johannes van ... 100 types of HPV are known. Some types have a high potential for causing cancer (high-risk types), whereas others have a lower potential for causing cancer (low-risk types). High-risk types ... decades, it is seen more frequently in women in their 40s and 50s.2,6,26–30See Figure 2 for age-specic rates of cervical cancer deaths.Risk factors For women, the risk of contracting HPV...