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sadly i the virus behind cervical cancer. you discover this and you discover that there is no such thing as protected sex. 031104
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x There are many different types of genital HPV.
Only certain types of HPV are linked with cervical cancer. These are usually called "high-risk" types.
The types of HPV that cause raised external genital warts are not linked with cancer. These are called "low-risk" types.
These wart-types of HPV usually are not usually found on a female's cervix, and therefore, are not going to carry any risk of cancer.
It is common for a person to be exposed and have more than one type of HPV, including several "high-risk" types. Yet, most women do not develop cervical cancer.
Cervical cancer usually takes years to develop.
The majority of cases of cervical cancer are in women who have either never had a Pap smear, or have not had one in five years or more.
Cervical cancer can be prevented if a female gets a Pap smear at regular intervals. This way, if abnormal cell changes are found, it can be monitored and / or treated before progressing to cervical cancer.
Most of the time, men will not have any symptoms or health risks such as cancer with the "high-risk" types of HPV. It is the female's cervix that needs to be monitored.
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blown cherry It's not a fucking joke, which some people will not seem to realise.
A condom is not enough to stop it, which some people will not seem to realise.
Just because the guy probably won't get symptoms, that doesn't mean it's not his problem, which some people will not seem to realise.

Wish me luck on my pap smear tomorrow.
Cervical infection begone! Out damn spot!


with fingers crossed
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nom "Will GARDASIL help me if I already have Human Papillomavirus?
You may benefit from GARDASIL if you already have HPV. This is because most people are not infected with all four types of HPV contained in the vaccine. In clinical trials, individuals with current or past infection with one or more vaccine-related HPV types prior to vaccination were protected from disease
caused by the remaining vaccine HPV types. GARDASIL is not intended to be used for treatment for the above mentioned diseases. Talk to your health care professional for more information."
- http://www.gardasil.com/
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nom "Will sexually active females benefit from the vaccine?
Females who are sexually active may also benefit from the vaccine. But they may get less benefit from the vaccine since they may have already acquired one or more HPV type(s) covered by the vaccine. Few young women are infected with all four of these HPV types. So they would still get protection from those types they have not acquired."
- http://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/STDFact-HPV-vaccine.htm
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nom "Infection with multiple HPV types ups cancer risk"

"NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -Women who become infected with multiple strains of the virus linked to cervical cancer may have a particularly high risk of developing the disease, new research suggests.

In a study that followed more than 2,400 Brazilian women, researchers found that those who became infected with more than one type of human papillomavirus were far more likely than women infected with one viral strain to develop precancerous changes in the cervix.

...The study, which is published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, included 2,462 women ages 18 to 60 who underwent multiple HPV tests over four years.

The tests were more sophisticated than those used in clinical practice, which basically give a "yes" or "no" as to whether a woman has a high-risk HPV type. They instead specifically identified roughly 40 genital HPV types, including high- and low-risk types.

At any one test, Franco's team found, 2% to 3% of the women were infected with multiple HPV strains. Many more—22%—tested positive for different HPV types at some point over the four years. And as a group, these women were at particular risk of developing precancerous lesions.

Compared with women who tested negative for HPV throughout the first year of the study, those infected with one HPV type were 41 times more likely to develop high-grade cervical lesions. But the risk was 92 times greater for women who'd been infected with two or three HPV types, and more than 400 times higher for those with four to six viral types.

The combination of HPV-16 and HPV-58 appeared particularly risky, the researchers found.

HPV-16 is one of four viral types targeted by the recently approved HPV vaccine Gardasil. The vaccine does not prevent HPV-58 infection, but it would be expected to take away the risk of "coinfection" with HPV-16, Franco noted."

- reuters.com
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nom "...While doctors say most of the questions they are hearing concern the vaccination of children, some women are also asking if they should be vaccinated and why.

"Many of the patients I see have already had an abnormal Pap" test, which is used to detect cervical cancer, said Kenneth Noller, chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Tufts University School of Medicine. "And their question is, 'Does it make sense for me to be immunized?' "


"Does it do me any good to be immunized if I've already had HPV or if I have it now?

Women up to age 26 should be vaccinated regardless, advises the CDC committee. That's partly because experts aren't certain whether having had one strain of the virus gives you total immunity against reinfection by that strain. Also, getting the shot will protect you against any of the included strains that you haven't had already, according to Richard M. Haupt, executive medical director at Merck.

The CDC committee recommended immunization for women previously infected with HPV despite conflicting findings on the likelihood of their developing cervical lesions. In one of Merck's studies, previously infected women who received the vaccine had higher rates of precancerous lesions than those in the placebo group; in two other studies, previously infected women in the vaccine group had slightly lower rates of precancerous lesions than did those in the placebo group..."

- washingtonpost.com
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nom if you're over 26 you can still get the vaccine, in canada at least, according to a doctor i talked to 070201
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nom i found myself educating/answering the the receptionists'/assistants' questions at the clinic yesterday,...one of them wants to get the vaccine but is still unsure, wants me to let her "know how things go" as far as any possible side effects and stuff,...and the other was basically unaware about the link between hpv and cervical cancer. 070223
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