You’ve had HPV
Human papillomavirus is the number-one risk factor for developing cervical cancer, and it’s also one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases—about 80 percent of sexually active people are infected with HPV at some point in their lives. “It’s pretty uncommon to find a cervix cancer not HPV-related,” says Robert DeBernardo, MD, a gynecologic oncologist at Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. There are more than 200 types of HPV but only a handful are considered “high risk” for leading to cervical cancer, with about 70 percent of cancer cases caused by just two of those types. The body clears up to 90 percent of HPV infections by itself without treatment, but sometimes it doesn’t and the virus is able to change the cells of the cervix; left untreated, this can advance to cancer.
from Reader's Digest http://ift.tt/2jMHlGy
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