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Cervical cancer is a malignancy of the cervix. It may present with vaginal bleeding but symptoms may be absent until the cancer is in its advanced stages, which has made cervical cancer the focus of intense screening efforts utilizing the Pap smear.
Most scientific studies have found that human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is responsible for virtually all cases of cervical cancer.
Treatment consists of surgery (including local excision) in early stages and chemotherapy and radiotherapy in advanced stages of the disease.
An effective HPV vaccine against the two most common cancer-causing strains of HPV has recently been licenced in the US. These two HPV strains together are responsible for approximately 70% of all cervical cancers.
– from wikipedia.org
Men can also receive and give HPV. Any sexually active male or female can pass on HPV to their partners. There is no known cure for HPV. HPV is a group of 100+ viruses. Men get HPV the same way women do, through skin-to-skin sexual contact. This contact can be vaginal or oral. If you [...]
nyone who is sexually active or has skin-to-skin contact with someone who has HPV genital warts runs the risk of getting HPV, even teens. HPV does not discriminate again any age or sex. Anyone from infants through the elderly can and do become HPV infected. HPV is a highly contagious, sexually transmitted and skin-to-skin transmitted [...]
There is a relationship between HPV and cervical cancer. Cervical cancer is a female disease. However, having HPV does not mean you have cervical cancer. Conversely, if you have cervical cancer you will most likely have had HPV. We will explore the connection briefly here.
If you have a history of female infections, it is likely [...]
Cervical cancer is a type of cancer that grows over time and that can be very devastating to the health of a woman. This disease can be easily identified by regularly having pap tests, so it is important to do your best to take all the preventative measures that you can. In this article, we [...]
You may be part of this statistic and not even know that you are! Despite the fact that 24 million Americans may have contracted the human papillomavirus (HPV), more than 76% of women living in the U.S.A., have yet to hear about what HPV is! The media has noticed this fact, and we now see [...]