Cervical Cancer: Possible Complications of HPV

HPV accounts for one of the major sexually transmitted diseases in the United States causing many complex problems. It needs to be noted that there are around 100 types of HPV and not all of them are harmful. Read more about Jacksonville STD testing clinics

HPV, sometimes referred to as genital warts, can cause warts to grow in the vagina, rectum, vulva, or groin. When visible, these warts are usually painless, fleshy swellings, white to gray in color, but they may be pink or purple. HPV causes the epithelial cells, that’s the ones making new skin, to grow at a much faster rate than usual. This growth erupts out into the visible, outer skin as a roughly circular or cylindrical lump. HPV infections are of different types and are over hundred in numbers, but around 35-40 of these have the potential to infect the genital area. And these genital wart causing viruses are categorized into two parts according to their intensity - less risky or more risky.

Skin-to skin-contact, such as during sex, between a sterile person and one who has genital warts HPV is the primary reason for the spread of the human papilloma virus. Skin warts or papillomas can be transmitted between individuals by a filterable infectious agent.

Cervical cancer is a possible complication of HPV infection. Cervical cancer used to be an old woman's disease but today it is showing up in younger women. In the 1960's, 9 percent of cervical cancers were found in women under 35 years old.  Cervical cancer develops slowly over decades. If you have genital warts, you are also likely to have been infected with a cancer-causing strain of the virus.

There are greater than 100 different types of HPV, but only a few can cause genital warts. Types 45, 31, 18, and 16 all together are related to 80 percent of the cases of cervical cancer. Types 6 and 11 are low risk HPV types, associated with 80 percent of genital warts.

Sexual partners of people who have genital warts may benefit from examination to assess the presence of genital warts. They may also benefit from counselling about the implications of having a partner who has genital warts. Sexual contact should be avoided while the cream is on the skin. If you decide to have sexual relations, apply Aldara cream after—not before—sexual activity. Sexual relationship with a secure single partner minimiz”es the risk considerably. It is also advisable to use latex condoms while engaging in sexual affair.

Doctors often recommend medicine applied to warts (topical drug treatment) as the first choice of treatment. A doctor will apply the medicines that have a high risk of causing damage to the skin around the warts. Doctors define cold sores and its causes as the following: "The virus lies latent (dormant) in the body and is reawakened (reactivated) by factors such as stress, sunburn, or fever from a wide range of infectious diseases including colds. Recurrences are less common after age 35.

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You’re Life, Your Health. What you don’t know can hurt you

There’s been a recent change the last five years or so, People are taking control of there health. For years people have been munching down on fattening cheese burgers and greasy fry’s without thinking twice about it, children were becoming more obese, and no body cared about easily prevented cancers.

Since this change in our worlds new found healthy lifestyle, over-all health seems to be going in the right direction. People are eating right, exercising often, and thinking before they do things that may interrupt there perfectly healthy life. Unfortunately people are very misinformed. Everyone knows about saturated fats, and that smoking will kill you in the long run, because this is what we have all been told over and over again. Oddly enough the people in charge of informing the public don’t always spread all of the information as mainstream as they should.

Over the last thirty years more people have been coming in contact with diseases that they once thought would never be something to interrupt there lives. Only the lower class could catch them, or the street walkers of NYC, was what you would hear. The times have changed. If you have any kind of an intimate relationship chances are you will catch an STD. Over a quarter of the population are infected with one of the many Sexually Transmitted Diseases running rampant around the world.

Everyone has heard of HIV and AIDS and think, it will never happen to me. They may be correct about that, but what about the high risk diseases out there with no symptoms that thousands of people are carrying like HPV, Chlamydia, or Herpes? The statistics are mind boggling with the combination of the three infecting one in three people in the US alone. STD’s are not just for the poor and minorities anymore.

With these staggering figures how come we don’t see media campaigns like you do with other health issues? You certainly see big drug companies taking advantage of the huge number of people living with these incurable diseases. There commercials are all over T.V. and radio trying to get the word out about there treatments and cervices. But it seems that the Government isn’t spending the money that they should to help make people aware of the severity of this rising epidemic.

In the end it seems that they have left it up to us to spread the knowledge of just how serious this has become. Now that it’s really hit home to almost everyone in the world hopefully talking about these dangerous diseases will become more mainstream and less controversial.

About the author:
Joel Anderson is the head organizer of
Yourstdhelp.com. An organization dedicated to spreading the word about STD's 

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