These things together gave me concern about about proper "clean up" after DT or DATY vs "covered". It related to multiple partners. And I am wondering about the effects of "proper" cleaning between, or after if protection is not used. Anyone have other information on this topic?
The important of covering, or cleaning or other factors involved with HPV and multiple partners.
This is some of the information I have found so far.
National Institutes of Health http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7936507
GO HERE FOR OBJECTIVE METHOD AND RESULTS FOR THE STUDY -
CONCLUSION:BUT CAN IT BE JUST THE MULTIPLE PARTNERS? Is it related to the number of incidents? Or the cleaning? Or the protection?
The presence of HPV DNA is best predicted by the number of new sexual partners in the last 5 years. Transiently detectable HPV DNA is one possible explanation for this observation.
Source CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/common-cl...inicianBro.txt
Why is it Important to Know About HPV?
Genital infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the United States (U.S.) today.
1 Over half of sexually active women and men are infected with HPV at some point in their lives.
2. In most cases, infections with HPV are not serious. Most HPV infections are asymptomatic, transient, and resolve without treatment. However, in some individuals, HPV infections result in genital warts, Pap test abnormalities, or, rarely, cervical cancer.
3 The Pap test is useful in early detection of cervical cancer, one of the possible outcomes of an HPV infection. Early detection and treatment of pre-cancerous lesions can prevent development of cervical cancer.
4 What is HPV? Papillomaviruses are DNA tumor viruses that are widely distributed throughout animal species; these viruses are species specific.
The papillomavirus that infects humans is called human papillomavirus, or HPV. HPV commonly causes epithelial proliferations at cutaneous and
mucosal surfaces.
Types of HPV
There are more than 100 different types of HPV. They differ in terms
of the types of epithelium they infect. Some infect cutaneous
sites, whereas others infect mucosal surfaces. Over 40 types infect mucosal surfaces, including the anogenital epithelium (e.g., cervix, vagina, vulva, rectum, urethra, penis, and anus). For most of these HPV types, there are sufficient data to divide them into “high-risk” (e.g., oncogenic or cancer-associated) types and “low-risk” (e.g., non-oncogenic) types (see Table 1 on page 2).
How Common is HPV?
Approximately 20 million Americans 15 to 49 years of age (approximately 15% of the population) are currently infected with HPV.5 Others may have been infected in the past and may no longer have the virus. About
half of those who are infected with HPV are sexually active adolescents and young adults 15 to 24 years of age.5 Between 5% and 30% of individuals infecte with HPV are infected with multiple types of HPV.
6 HPV Infection
Section I: Genital HPV Infection
• Each year, about 6.2 million people in the U.S. become newly infected.
• Estimates for the incidence and prevalence of genital warts caused by low-risk types of HPV are imprecise. About 1% of sexually active adults have visible genital warts at any point in time.
Table : Types of HPV
High-risk (oncogenic or cancer-associated) types
Common types: 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58,
59, 68, 82
These are considered high-risk because they can be found in association with invasive cancers of the cervix, vulva, penis, or anus (as well as other sites).
• HPV 16 is the most common high-risk type, found in almost half of all cervical cancers. It is also one of the most common types found in women without cancer.
• HPV 18 is another common high-risk virus, found not only in squamous lesions but also in glandular lesions of the cervix. HPV 18 accounts for 10% to 12% of cervical cancers. All of the other high-risk types can be
associated with cervical cancer, but much less frequently than HPV 16 and 18. HPV types 31, 33, 45, 52, and 58 each account for between 2% to 4% of cancers. Each of the other high-risk types account for 1% or less of cancers.