HPV

Is HPV 16 worse than the others?

My result names the type. Everything I read about that number is more alarming than the general HPV information.

slate_roof 2 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 2 months ago

It is the type most strongly associated with cervical cancer and with HPV related cancers generally, and it does carry more risk than the other high risk types. That is why some programmes triage it differently.

What has not changed is that most infections with it still clear, and that the pathway from persistent infection to cancer is long and screened.

ninth_street 2 months ago

Some screening programmes send people with this type straight to colposcopy rather than waiting a year, precisely because of that risk difference. Worth asking what your programme does.

evening_ferry 2 months ago

Knowing the type is an advantage even when it is frightening. It is the information that lets them manage you appropriately rather than generically.

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