What are the treatment options for HPV infection?
Although there is currently no medical cure for human papillomavirus infection, the lesions and warts these viruses cause can be treated. Methods commonly used to treat lesions include (freezing that destroys tissue), (, the removal of tissue using a hot wire loop), and conventional . Similar treatments may be used for external genital warts. In addition, some may be used to treat external genital warts (). More information about treatment for genital warts can be found on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines Web page at on the Internet. • What research is being done on HPV-related cancers? Researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and elsewhere are studying how HPVs cause precancerous changes in normal cells and how these changes can be prevented (). Scientists are also developing HPV vaccines that will be stable at room temperature and that protect against
