If you have cervical cancer, does that mean you have genital warts? Allot of the info on here is saying that it "cervical cancer" is cause by HPV...and HPV is genital warts. Im confused. Do I also have genital warts? and why wouldn't my doctor tell me this? I have never ever heard the words STD, warts or HPV in refferance to my health. Is this the only 100% possibility of getting cervical cancer?
2006-08-14 00:27:37 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
HPV is the Human Pappiloma Virus......
it's a virus....it can cause all kinds of things.....
2006-08-14 00:32:30 · answer #1 · answered by Campbell Gramma 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many types of HPV and different ways to contract the virus, sexual contact being one of them. Genital HPV can infect the male and female genitalia and the linings of the vagina, cervix, rectum. Most people infected with HPV have no symptoms and the virus goes away on it's own. But even though a person may not have any symptoms they can still spread the virus through sexual contact. Not everyone experiences genital warts. Some opt to have the warts removed or choose to wait and see if the warts go away on their own. Most of the time HPV will cause an abnormal PAP smear but that does not mean you definetly will get cervical cancer. Regular PAP smears can detect cervical cancer early when the outcome is excellent. Also using condoms can prevent the infection thereby reducing the incidence of cancer.
You can get cervical cancer without having HPV and if you have cervical cancer it doesn't mean you have genital warts. As with all types of cancer you can get it.....well.......just because. We don't know all the answers as to why. I would think (hope) your doctor would have told you if you had HPV. So bottom line......you won't have warts just because you have cervical cancer and having HPV is not the only way you get cervical cancer. Hope this helps.
2006-08-15 03:33:52 · answer #2 · answered by libria 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My girlfriend just got back from the doctor last week and is going back today. She had HPV, there's nothing you can do to cause you to get it, the doctor's exact words to her was "Anything can cause the virus." She found she had HPV when she went to the doctor for a papsmear and they found that something was irregular. She then went to a better doctor and while they performed another test they swabbed the inside of her to be examined. She had cervical cancer in the 3rd stage, which isn't really considered cancer, the doctor said, but over time it would have progressed to the full 5th stage and been complete cancer. She is going back today for them to freeze or something the abnormal part out of her. The way the doctor told her is that any type of wart is HPV weather inside your ... you know what ... Or just a wart on your finger, however, STDs and HPV are not in any way related.
2006-08-14 07:41:41 · answer #3 · answered by C. Hudgins 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO and it's not a stupid question at all! I'm actually quite pissed off about these commercials that are trying to make us feel like idiots that all this time "It was just a virus" so why? Does that mean we never had to have Pap Smears? what? I don't get it at all, but I do know that the HPV virus is not the only way to "contract" cervical cancer.Anyway, if you had genital warts, you'd probably know, you would feel them the same way you would feel a wart on the backside of your arm. You can't see it, but you kow it's there! HPV and Genital warts are not mutually inclusive, meaning you can have one without the other. I'm going to find a website for you and I'll be right back!
2006-08-14 07:40:16 · answer #4 · answered by Sidoney 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one knows for sure how and what causes cancer. Human Papaloma Virus is frequently found to be the cause of cervical cancer. It is thought that the virus may be spread by sexual intercourse. It does not have to be spread that way. There are lots of ways viruses get spread. Some people have the HPV virus in them and have no illnesses, no symptoms.
If you had genital warts, you would know it. You would have ugly lumps in the genital area. If you had them, your doctor would know and would tell you.
When one's health is involved, there are no stupid questions. My prayers are with you.
2006-08-14 07:39:11 · answer #5 · answered by regerugged 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cervical cancer can be caused by other things than HPV. There is one uncommon thing - your mother being treated with DES that can affect you in this way.
What caused it is to some degree a moot point now. Best wishes in getting it treated.
2006-08-14 07:33:05 · answer #6 · answered by Buzz s 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
STD and HPV are not one in the same and one is not the result of the other. We (some of us) are born with a propensity to have cancer the HPV is one that is screened for in a PAP smear.
2006-08-14 07:32:33 · answer #7 · answered by want2flybye 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please take a look at this site, as it would seems to answer your questions:
2006-08-14 07:36:16 · answer #8 · answered by Debbie M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋