Vaccines are recommended for people up to age 26, if not given earlier. If you are older than that, talk to your doctor about whether you should still get the HPV vaccine. Getting vaccinated against HPV helps protect you from the HPV strains most likely to cause cancer, but it does not protect you from all strains of the virus. It's hard to prevent HPV infections that cause common warts but you may be able to reduce your risk of developing genital warts from HPV infections by reducing the number of sex partners you have and using condoms.
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Contact Editor. Learn more about Baldwin Publishing Inc. No information provided by Baldwin Publishing, Inc. Baldwin Publishing, Inc. More research is necessary to determine exactly how people get and pass on oral HPV infections. Approximately 79 million Americans currently have HPV, and 14 million people will be newly diagnosed this year alone.
Approximately 7 percent of Americans ages 14 to 69 have oral HPV. The number of people who have oral HPV has increased over the past three decades. HPV is considered a high-risk type.
Oropharyngeal cancer is rare. Approximately 1 percent of people have HPV Less than 15, people get HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancers each year. Age is a risk factor for oropharyngeal cancer. No test is available to determine if you have HPV of the mouth. Your dentist or doctor may discover lesions through a cancer screening, or you may notice the lesions first and make an appointment.
If you have lesions, your doctor can perform a biopsy to see if the lesions are cancerous. If HPV is present, the cancer may be more responsive to treatment. Most types of oral HPV go away before they cause any health issues. If you develop oral warts due to HPV, your doctor will likely remove the warts. Treating the warts with topical treatments can be difficult because the warts may be hard to reach.
Your doctor may use any of the following methods to treat the warts:. If you do develop oropharyngeal cancer, treatment options are available. HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancers have better outcomes and fewer relapses after treatment than HPV-negative cancers. Treatment for oropharyngeal cancer can include radiation therapy, surgery, chemotherapy, or a combination of these.
Lifestyle changes are some of the easiest ways to help prevent HPV. Here are some tips for prevention:. Lisa, who works in customer services, was invited for a smear as part of a free NHS health check offered every five years to overs, despite having had a normal smear test result just one year earlier.
Within three weeks though, she was told she had a high risk strain of the human papilloma virus HPV — the virus which causes virtually all cases of cervical cancer — as well as cervical cell changes, and needed a follow-up appointment. I knew nothing about it.
My brain went into meltdown. Women diagnosed with cervical cell changes are being treated differently across the country. More than half of women said they would suspect their partner of being unfaithful to them if they were diagnosed with HPV, while one in five said they would feel embarrassed and one in 10 said they would feel dirty.
HPV is a very common virus, transmitted through skin-to-skin sexual contact, which four out of five of us will get at some point in our lives. There are more than types of HPV, just 40 of which affect the genital areas, and only 13 of which are linked to cancer — known as high risk HPV. While your chances of getting HPV are pretty high therefore, your risk of it leading to cervical cancer is significantly lower.
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