How to treat cancer: HPV

By: Ramon Gil

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.

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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Every two minutes a woman died because of cervical cancer.

In some countries cervical cancer is the number one cancer occurred to woman. Poor knowledge of women to this cancer is the main trigger of rapid incidence of the disease.

Every woman - without reference to age and background- can be incured by cervical cancer, the cancer that caused by infection of human papilloma virus (HPV).

In Pacific Asia about 266.000 cases of cervical cancer can be found every year, 143.000 of them passed away in productive age.

In developing countries only 41% of patients of cervical cancer will get the treatment which they require to get healing.

Combination of early detection through screening and vaccination can depress the number of occurence of cervical cancer to woman.

Cervical cancer really influences the quality of a woman life and her closest environment: her family. In consequence, each woman has to alert to cervical cancer by knowing the disease, its detection and prevention accurately.

Early Detection

There is no symptom of cervical cancer in early stage. But it can be detected, that is by conducting Pap Smears. The advantage of Pap Smears is to find the cancer earlier so the management will much easier and the woman has a better quality of life.A woman should do Pap Smears one year after she is sexually active, and repeats it regularly every year. There are 100 types of HPV identified and most of them are not harmful and also do not show the symptom. Fourty types of HPV may be contagious through sexual intercourse; they are classified into two groups: HPV causing cancer and low risk HPV.

Every woman is having the risk of being infected by cervical cancer during their life without reference to age and life style. HPV easily infected through skin contact and sexual intercourse. Condom use cannot lessen the risk of spreading HPV.

About 50-80% women are infected by HPV through sexual contact. About 50% of the infection is potencial to grow to be cancer. The risk is started from the very first sexual contact.

Not likely other viruses, if a woman is infected by HPV, it does not mean that she will have immunity to the virus. The woman remains to have risks to get the repeated infection from same or different types of HPV.

Vaccination

Other prevention is conducting HPV vaccination. In this time there is available vaccine of type 16 HPV and type 18 HPV. These types are responsible to 70% cases of cervical cancer in Asia.

Vaccine will improve the ability of immune system to recognize and to kill the virus when it enters the body before the occurance of infection.

Vaccination combined with screening can lessen the risk of cervical cancer better than only screening.

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