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Does HPV cause Warts, or do Warts cause HPV?
I have been looking around but the descriptions I was finding were kinda hard to understand....
I am 22 and I have a wart growing on my finger. It's really small right now, But I use to get them all the time as a kid and I KNOW that this is a wart. Now my question is simply this: Having this wart, does that mean I have the HPV? Or will it give me HPV?
Having this wart on my hand, should I go and get a pap test? What are the chances of me having hpv of me getting overian cancer with a wart on my finger? I don't want to think too much into it, but if I should start saving to go to a doctor, I'd like to know now lol. Thank you
=P I meant cervical cancer lol
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- KarinLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
You do have HPV. But there are a lot of strains of HPV, and it doesn't necessarily mean you'll ever get genital warts. Most people have HPV (estimated somewhere between 60 and 80% percent of Americans), and very few ever have genital warts.
Ovarian cancer is NOT caused by HPV. Let me repeat that. Ovarian cancer is NOT caused by HPV. Ovarian cancer is currently known to be caused by nothing (my mom died of it). Ovarian cancer cannot be caught by a PAP smear, either. A few strains of HPV can, however, cause cervical cancer, which is fairly easy to treat (and can be caught by a PAP). You should be getting a PAP smear yearly regardless.
So your chances of getting ovarian cancer because of a wart on your finger? Right around zero.
- gangadharan nairLv 71 decade ago
Human Papilloma Viruses (HPV) cause warts or the warts are caused by HPV. Hand warts are caused by HPV type 2.
Genital warts are lesions of the skin or mucous membranes of the genitals caused by certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV). Some types of HPV cause flat warts in the cervical canal or anus; these warts can become cancerous. Diagnosis of external warts is based on their clinical appearance. Multiple treatments exist, but few are highly effective unless applied repeatedly over weeks to months. Genital warts may resolve without treatment in immunocompetent patients but may persist and spread in patients with decreased cell-mediated immunity (eg, due to pregnancy, HIV infection).
A new vaccine called Gardasil prevents infection against four of the HPV strains responsible for the majority of genital warts and cervical cancer in women. The vaccine is given as a series of three shots. It is recommended for girls and women ages 9 to 26.
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPV http://www.std-gov.org/stds/hpv_warts.htm http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/00... http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/genital-warts/DS0... http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec14/ch194/ch194d.html#... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardasil http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/drug-information/... http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pap_smear - Anonymous5 years ago
yes it can. but it could be something else. i got high risk hpv 3 months ago. but my paps are normal, im just carrying the virus for now. theres a 90% chance that your body will fight it off. and the better immunity you have the better. the other 10% will keep it the rest of their lives and half of them may get cervical cancer. get tested every year. its pretty normal to get hpv, 80% of people have had it once in their lives. its like chicken pox. good luck!
- 1 decade ago
there are hundreds of different types of virus's that cause warts, hpv has at least 60 different kinds
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
HPV causes warts; genital and non-genital.
