Your Cancer Answers: How can I prevent HPV? - Santa Maria Times
Your Cancer Answers: How can I prevent HPV? - Santa Maria Times Your Cancer Answers: How can I prevent HPV? - Santa Maria Times Posted: 31 Dec 2019 09:30 AM PST {{featured_button_text}} Julie Neiggemann Human Papilloma Virus, or HPV, is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. Today, 79 million Americans, most in their late teens and early 20s, are infected with HPV. There are many different types of the HPV. In some cases HPV goes away on its own and does not cause any health problems. However, in cases where it does not go away, HPV it can cause health problems from genital warts to cancer. There are low-risk HPVs, which can have no symptoms but cause warts on the area involved in sexual contact, and high-risk HPVs, which can lead to cancer. Anyone who is sexually active can get HPV, even if your sexual partners have no symptoms or you have had sex with only one person. Though, ...