Wednesday, September 23, 2009

How dangerous papilloma virus?

Since then, as it became known that cervical cancer is caused by human papilloma virus (HPV) around the infection in Russia medicine unfolded excitement that can not, unfortunately, called healthy. These are generally conducted tests for HPV and diligent efforts to cure women from the virus before it causes cancer. For treatment in the course are various antiviral and immune-boosting tools, and, necessarily, in combination with each other, and often for several courses. Now try to understand the situation: how dangerous papilloma virus and whether it is the money that its owner has to spend on expensive tests and more expensive drugs.
Human papilloma virus affects the skin and mucous membranes of some organs, leading to excessive growth and division wrong epithelial cells. HPV can be transmitted sexually and cause gynecological diseases such as genital warts (warts), cervical cancer, and cancer of the external genitalia and vagina. We know more than 100 types of HPV, but only a few of them cause the above diseases, and warts and cancer are caused by different types of the virus. Types of virus capable of causing cancer, called oncogenes, all of them are known 15. More than half of all cases of cancer caused by HPV types 16 and 18, with the rest - in other oncogenic types of the virus. It was also found that each woman having sex at least once in their lifetime infected with one of the oncogenic types of HPV, however, cervical cancer, even in the absence of prevention, falls ill, only 3 out of 10000 women. This is because the papilloma virus after entry into the body is stored in it is not forever, but about 2 years, and then inactivated by a healthy immune system. Papilloma virus is not terrible, even during pregnancy: being transmitted from mother to fetus, it causes disease in a child in extremely rare cases. To date, effective means to get rid of the papilloma virus, does not exist, so if genital warts carry out their removal one of the modern methods (chemical, surgical, application of antiviral creams), and cervical cancer prevention is achieved through an annual survey of women with Pap test (cervical smear for cytology). In addition, a vaccine against 4 types of HPV, recommended to all adolescent girls and women up to 26 years.
As seen from the above data, a survey of the entire female population is absolutely inappropriate and has no value for the prevention of cancer. And this, in the first place, is to know that who is going to pay for the test and subsequent treatment earned a hard-earned money.

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