can the hpv virus that causes abnormal cells or cancerous cells also cause genital warts?
Sunday, August 29th, 2010 at
2:50 am
can different strands of hpv give you both?? or will it only come one or the other. basically, could the girl get the abnormal cells and the guy eventually get warts???
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Yes you can have multiple HPV types.
They are 40 different HPV types. HPV types are numbered in the sequences of which they were discovered. Each HPV types is slightly different in their genetic structure. Visible external warts are often caused by HPV types 6 or 11. These are low risk HPV types. These types are not screened for in your HPV test. Low risk HPV types 6 and 11 can occur in the cervix or on the vaginal canal or vulva…sometimes you can have these low risk HPV types but never show a sign of the virus in the external parts of the genitalia. Other HPV types can cause warts….sometimes high risk HPV types 16 and 18 show as visible external genital warts.
Sometimes men whose partner showed abnormal cell changes do develop flat warts…sometimes these are very difficult to see. Often men and women do not show any signs of the virus.
The HPV test screens for 13 high risk HPV types.
http://www.thehpvtest.com
Specific HPV type testing is rarely done. So it is difficult to know what HPV type or types we may have.
Your partner may never show signs of a wart…but he could.
HPV types 16, 18, 31, 33, and 35 are found occasionally in visible genital warts and have been associated with external genital (i.e., vulvar, penile, and anal) squamous intraepithelial neoplasia (i.e., squamous cell carcinoma in situ, bowenoid papulosis, Erythroplasia of Queyrat, or Bowen’s disease of the genitalia). These HPV types also have been associated with vaginal, anal, and CIN and anogenital and some head and neck squamous cell carcinomas. Patients who have visible genital warts are frequently infected simultaneously with multiple HPV types.
http://www.cdc.gov/std/treatment/2006/genital-warts.htm
HPV types 6 and 11, the most common low-risk HPV types account for >90% of all cases of genital warts. Previously, it was thought that low-risk HPV types cause low-grade cervical lesions and high-risk HPV types cause high-grade cervical lesions (CIN 2/3). HPV 6 and 11, the most common low-risk HPV types, account for ~25% of CIN 1 lesions; however, ~75% of CIN 1 lesions are caused by high-risk types, with ~25% of CIN 1 lesions caused by the most common high-risk HPV types HPV 16 and HPV 18 [Gravitt, 2005]. At this stage of HPV infection, viral clearance and regression of cytologic abnormalities occurs in over 85% of these HPV infections.
http://www.merckmedicus.com/pp/us/hcp/diseasemodules/hpvd/natural-history.jsp
Quoted from WEBMD:
High-Risk HPV, Low-Risk HPV
Not all of the 40 sexually transmitted HPV viruses cause serious health problems. High-risk HPV strains include HPV 16 and 18, which cause about 70% of cervical cancers. Other high-risk HPV viruses include 31, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 58, and a few others.
Low-risk HPV strains, such as HPV 6 and 11, cause about 90% of genital warts, which rarely develop into cancer. Genital warts can look like bumps or growths. Sometimes they are shaped like cauliflower. The warts can show up weeks or months after exposure to an infected sexual partner.
Straight up, your doc can not tell you what strain you have (according to the last time I went to my doc). I’ve had visible HPV for 11 years. The guy could already have it and not know it. I didn’t know I had it until I was pregnant. The only thing you can do is save yourself for someone you TRUST and LOVE.