Genital warts

Do I need smears more often because of warts?

Assumed a wart diagnosis would put me on a shorter screening interval. My clinic says no. Are they being complacent?

long_grass 3 months ago

NoteMember experience, not medical advice. Symptoms overlap between infections and only a test can tell them apart.

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salt_marsh 3 months ago

They are following the guidance. Warts are caused by low risk types that are not associated with cervical cancer, so a wart diagnosis on its own does not change screening intervals anywhere I know of.

What changes your interval is what the screening test itself finds.

ninth_street 3 months ago

It does feel counterintuitive. The mental model most people have is one virus with one risk level, when actually it is a large family of types doing quite different things.

grey_morning 3 months ago

The thing to actually do is attend the screening you are already invited to. That is where the risk gets managed, and non attendance is a far bigger problem than the interval.

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