on average; how many men must a woman sleep with before she gets cervical cancer?

Answer 1

It depends on if she's sleeping with nice conservative men, in which case she's unlikely to ever get HPV, or if she's sleeping with drug-addled liberal men, in which case she probably gave them some kind of disease in trade, and that makes it fair.

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GODDAMN "cantcu" knows way too much about cervical cancer. Got a little lifestyle problem there, cantcu?

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Answer 2

There isn't really a number of men. It just depends on how soon she gets HPV, which can cause cervical cancer years down the road and is the world's most common STD. Most people have it and don't know it. I think about 70 to 80% of America's sexually active population is infected in fact.

Edit: I wanted to add to this, so as not to freak everyone out.
The only real harm with HPV, or Human Papilloma Virus is Cervical cancer in women, and with regular check ups it is completely avoidable. So don't freak out about it, but please do get tested for it and let your partners know. Even though chances are if you're not their first, they probably have it.

Answer 3

It depends on how many of those men are infected with the HPV virus. Women don't just contract cervical cancer from having intercourse. She must sleep with a man who has HPV, and even then, there is no "guarantee" that she'll have cervical cancer.

Answer 4

You can't get cervical cancer or ANY kind of cancer directly from sex. You'd have to get HPV, or Genital Warts, before you get cervical cancer. How many women you have to sleep with before you get HPV on the other hand, just one. Same as HIV, Syphillis, Chlamydia and several other Sexually Transmitted Diseases.

BTW: Why is this in the Political bracket anyway?

Answer 5

Nicole is right! Cervical cancer is related to a particular form of the HPV virus. Check out this site:
http://womenshealth.about.com/cs/cervicalcancer/a/hpvcervcancercn.htm

Answer 6

There is low and High risk HPV and can be caught not just intercourse, but just contact.. The problem with many are people carry it and have no symptoms so it goes untreated for years.

If it weren't for AIDS this would be making all the headlines, thoughnot nearly as deadly. In the US 14,000 are diagnosed a year and 3,900 die a year from cervical cancer.

Many men have it and don't know it. A simple test is to get some viniger, soak wrap guaze bandages. After about 15 minutes you can see them on your penis. They look like small round white dots. Burn them off is the treatment!

Over 30 get a PAP and be immunized.

And the answere is not one too many because you can catch HPV and still be technically a virgin! Genital contact without intercourse is a means of infection!


The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is the main cause of the cancer, and around 15 high-risk types have been identified in all.

But Spanish researchers told the European Cancer Conference (ECCO) in Copenhagen, Denmark, that a type called HPV 16 accounts for around 64% of cases in the US and Europe.

The second most common variety, HPV 18, accounts for around another 8% of cases.

Scientists around the world are currently developing vaccines to protect against the HPV virus, and deciding which varieties they should act against. The first vaccine could be ready in around three years.

The drug company GlaxoSmithKline plans to start advanced international trials of its vaccine next year.

It will be targeted at thousands of women aged 15 to 25 in six or seven countries, including the UK.

Ultimately, the plan is to give the vaccine to girls as young as 11 or 12, and possibly to boys, who can carry the infection and transmit it through unprotected sex.

It is estimated that up to 20% of women aged 18 to 22 in the UK carry a variety of HPV.

In Europe, there are 65,000 new cases of cervical cancer each year causing 21,000 deaths.

Costly

Researchers from the Institut Catala d'Oncologia in Barcelona looked at data from 3,000 of cases of cervical cancer from around the world.

Dr Xavier Bosch who led the research, told BBC News Online: "We concluded that, globally, HPV 16 accounted for 56 to 62% of cervical cancers - in Europe, it was more like 64%."

He said it was important to get the right combination in the vaccines that were being developed.

"In Europe and North America a vaccine including HPV 16 and 18 - the most common types of the virus - would prevent 72% of cases among the vaccinated.

"A vaccine containing types 16, 18, 33, 31 and 45 would cover 84% of the cases.

"But 16 and 18 have to be there."

He admitted that research into a cervical cancer vaccine was still at a relatively early stage, and would be expensive to introduce.

But he added: "The gains in the longer term would be huge, both in terms of healthcare costs and in women's quality of life.

"In the meantime, participation in effective screening programmes, particularly if they include HPV testing, can detect and prevent many potential cases of cervical cancer at a very early stage."

I went to Nursing school before I got my BS!!

Answer 7

cervical cancer is not always caused by an STD

Answer 8

It can be one sexual encounter--- and the virus can lie dormant for years before the consequences are detected...
Human Papllioma Virus is insidious and a major health risk. Condoms are a deterrent but even they do not guarantee protection from exposure.

Answer 9

Why? Are we thinking of starting a plague or making a point?

I can't believe crap like this is even served up as a question. Somebody put a muzzle on this meathead!

Answer 10

Sex does not cause cervical cancer!