If a person has Persistent HPV will they FOR SURE get cervical cancer?
I found some good information from the American Social health Association HPV Resource Center… an article on the myths of HPV. Here’s what I found to be most relevant to your question: “4. Myth: Genital warts lead to cervical cancer. No one knows how many sleepless nights can be laid at the door of this myth. The truth, however, is that the fleshy growths we call genital warts are almost always benign. In the vast majority of cases, they do not lead to cancer, turn into cancer, or predispose a person toward developing cancer. According to Katherine Stone, MD, a member of ASHA’s HPV Scientific Advisory Committee, genital warts need not “raise a red flag with regard to cancer in anyone’s mind.” There are more than 70 types of human papillomavirus, and most are quite specific in the sites they can invade and the pathology they can cause. Those most strongly associated with cancer are HPV types 16, 18, 31, 45, and, to a lesser degree, half a dozen others. These are known as the “high-ris
