Most (56 Percent) of Young Adults in New Sexual Relationship Infected With HPV, Study

[☭proletarian☭]

ScienceDaily (Jan. 14, 2010) — A groundbreaking study of couples led by Professor Eduardo Franco, Director of McGill University's Cancer Epidemiology Unit, in collaboration with a team of colleagues from McGill and Université de Montréal/Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), found more than half (56 per cent) of young adults in a new sexual relationship were infected with human papillomavirus (HPV). Of those, nearly half (44 per cent) were infected with an HPV type that causes cancer.

Most (56 percent) of young adults in new sexual relationship infected with HPV, study finds

 

[uscitizen]

So much for the population problem.

 

[rdean]

Clearly, this can be blamed on "gay marriage".

 

[uscitizen]

Remember the big fuss with mostly right winger parents refusing to have their little girls vaccinated against HPV?

 

[chanel]

It's stories like these that make me say THANK GOD I AM MARRIED! (almost) lol

 

[Douger]

It's stories like these that make me say THANK GOD I AM MARRIED! (almost) lol

Get the vaccine anyway.
ALL men cheat

 

[jillian]

1. all girls should be vaccinated.
2. sure proves how welll abstinence only education worked.

NOW maybe we can teach them about safe sex without the lunatics whining?

 

[Luissa]

I have read that if you had sex with two or more partners without protection, you most likely have it.
There is a vaccine now, all girls should get it. Of course you can only get it until you are 24 or something.
I will say there are something like 70 forms of HPV, I believe only one or two types cause warts, and only a few cause cervical cancer. The others pretty much don't do anything.

 

[☭proletarian☭]

1. all girls should be vaccinated.
2. sure proves how welll abstinence only education worked.

NOW maybe we can teach them about safe sex without the lunatics whining?

Where in the hell is AO taught outside of religious schools?

For the record: Girls who go to catholic schools are freaks

 

[Douger]

1. all girls should be vaccinated.
2. sure proves how welll abstinence only education worked.

NOW maybe we can teach them about safe sex without the lunatics whining?

Where in the hell is AO taught outside of religious schools?

For the record: Girls who go to catholic schools are freaks

I agree. They do however, have one hole that they are "allowed" to use until they marry.
All is not bad.

 

[chanel]

Kids know about safe sex. We have a very comprehensive sex ed program in our school. 17 girls are now visibly pregnant. Some with their second/ Puhleez

And hubby won't cheat. I am 100% certain of that. There are still some men with character left in this world.

 

[rdean]

1. all girls should be vaccinated.
2. sure proves how welll abstinence only education worked.

NOW maybe we can teach them about safe sex without the lunatics whining?

I used to blog all the time on the World Magazine Blog, which is 90% Christian.

When this vaccine came up, the majority said they would never have their daughters vaccinated because knowing they could get cancer keeps them "chaste" and anything else gives them a "green light" to run out and "go crazy".

 

[☭proletarian☭]

Kids know about safe sex. We have a very comprehensive sex ed program in our school. 17 girls are now visibly pregnant. Some with their second/ Puhleez

And hubby won't cheat. I am 100% certain of that. There are still some men with character left in this world.

Translation: I''ve been giving that fool depro for years

 

[eagleseven]

Gotta find the 44%...

 

[uscitizen]

I have been theu 2 marriages. Never cheated on either one. Although I can't say the same about the first wife.

 

[waltky]

Granny coverin' possum's eyes...

HPV study finds 7% of U.S. teens, adults carry virus in mouths
January 27, 2012 - Infection with human papillomavirus heightens the risk of developing cancer of the mouth and throat. The findings indicate that most cases of oral HPV can be traced to oral sex, rather than to kissing or casual contact.

A new study showing an estimated 7% of American teens and adults carry the human papillomavirus in their mouths may help health experts finally understand why rates of mouth and throat cancer have been climbing for nearly 25 years. The evidence makes it clear that oral sex practices play a key role in transmission. The new data, published online Thursday by the Journal of the American Medical Assn., are the first to assess the prevalence of oral HPV infection in the U.S. population. The findings indicate that the virus is not likely to spread through kissing or casual contact and that most cases of oral HPV can be traced to oral sex, which many Americans mistakenly view as a safe practice.

"There is a strong association for sexual behavior, and that has important implications for public health officials who teach sexual education," said Dr. Maura L. Gillison of the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, who led the study and presented the findings Thursday at a meeting of head and neck cancer researchers and doctors in Phoenix. Though herpes, HIV and other diseases can be transmitted via oral sex, the practice is often considered a safer alternative to sexual intercourse. A survey released last year by theU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that about 90% of adults have had oral sex, along with 27% of 15-year-old boys and 23% of 15-year-old girls.

"I don't think people think of oral sex in the same way they do with traditional intercourse," said Fred Wyand, director of the HPV Resource Center at the American Social Health Assn. in Research Triangle Park, N.C. "Sometimes younger people engage in oral sex so they don't have to worry about pregnancy. They may not even make the link between oral sex and STDs." Suspicion among researchers that the behavior could cause oral cancers by transmitting HPV to the mouth has been mounting over the last decade. Initial studies found that patients with oral cancer were far more likely than healthy controls to have engaged in oral sex. And a 2007 study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that the more oral sex partners a person has had, the greater their risk of developing throat cancer.

Most oral HPV infections are harmless, and oral cancers are still relatively uncommon. But given the new information, doctors should encourage their patients to use protection during oral sex, Dr. Hans Schlecht, assistant professor of medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, wrote in an editorial accompanying the study. "It's something people are not comfortable talking about, but it is protective," he said in an interview. "If you are going to be intimate with someone, there are some adult conversations you need to have."

More HPV study finds human papillomavirus carried in mouths - latimes.com

 

[waltky]

Oh, well in dat case, Uncle Ferd all for it...

HPV Vaccine Doesn’t Alter Sexual Behavior, Study Finds
October 15, 2012, Coni Butler, an accountant in Austin, Tex., and a devout Catholic, encourages her three children to remain celibate before marriage. But that did not stop her from getting them vaccinated against human papillomavirus, or HPV, a sexually transmitted disease that raises the risk of some cancers.

Ms. Butler had her son and two daughters vaccinated between ages 12 and 15. She was not deterred by widespread concerns that the vaccine might encourage promiscuity. “We talk about remaining chaste until they get married, but there’s always the possibility that one bad choice could lead to devastating consequences,” she said. “I tell my friends that you pray for the best, but you plan for the worst.” Since public health officials began recommending in 2006 that young women be routinely vaccinated against HPV, many parents have hesitated over fears that doing so might give their children license to have sex. But research published on Monday in the journal Pediatrics may help ease those fears.

Looking at a sample of nearly 1,400 girls, the researchers found no evidence that those who were vaccinated beginning around age 11 went on to engage in more sexual activity than girls who were not vaccinated. “We’re hopeful that once physicians see this, it will give them evidence that they can give to parents,” said Robert A. Bednarczyk, the lead author of the report and a clinical investigator with the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research Southeast, in Atlanta. “Hopefully when parents see this, it’ll be reassuring to them and we can start to overcome this barrier.” HPV, the most common sexually transmitted virus in the United States, can cause cancers of the cervix, anus and parts of the throat. Federal health officials began recommending in 2006 that girls be vaccinated as early as age 11 and last year made a similar recommendation for preadolescent boys. The idea is to immunize boys and girls before they become sexually active to maximize the vaccine’s protective effects.

According to research, nearly a third of children 14 to 19 years old are infected with HPV. But despite the federal recommendations, vaccination rates around the country remain low, in part because of concerns about side effects as well as fears the vaccine could make adolescents less wary of casual sex. In one study of parental attitudes toward the vaccine, Yale researchers found that concern about promiscuity was the single biggest factor in the decision not to vaccinate. (A report last year from the Institute of Medicine, which advises the government, found that that the HPV vaccine was generally safe.) While there have been studies suggesting that the vaccine does not lower inhibitions in girls who receive it, most of them were based on self-reporting, which is not very reliable. So Dr. Bednarczyk and his colleagues looked instead at medical data collected by a large managed care organization.

They selected a group of 1,398 girls who were 11 or 12 in 2006 — roughly a third of whom had received the HPV vaccine — and followed them through 2010. The researchers then looked at what they considered markers of sexual activity, including pregnancies, counseling on contraceptives, and testing for or diagnoses of sexually transmitted diseases. Over all, in the time that the girls were followed, the researchers did not find any differences in these measures between the two groups.

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[waltky]

New urine test for HPV...

Urine Test Could Replace More Invasive HPV Screening
September 17, 2014 — Researchers say a relatively new test for HPV, the human papillomavirus, could replace a more invasive procedure to screen for cervical cancer. It could be appealing for many women who avoid current screening methods.

HPV is linked to cervical cancer, and screening for the disease is an invasive procedure that has required that cells be removed from the cervix and examined under a microscope. Recently, less invasive tests have been developed. Rather than look for abnormal cells on the cervix, these tests examine a woman’s urine for evidence of HPV infection in the form of DNA from the virus. Researchers from Britain and Spain analyzed 14 previous studies of the urine test. They found that the urine tests were not quite as accurate as the microscope examination, but were almost as good when the test used the first urine passed after a night’s sleep.

Researcher Dr. Neha Pathak of Queen Mary University of London said in a telephone interview that a reliable, non-invasive test could encourage more women to be screened. “If you have a urine test that is as accurate as that, then it opens up the world of opportunity for these people to still be tested for cervical cancer and pre-cancer, so they’re not missing out on the treatments that are readily available,” she said. Pathak and her colleagues published their findings in the British medical journal The BMJ. In an editorial commenting on the paper, researchers at the University of Manchester urged further research, including a study that compared results from different tests on the same woman.

Meanwhile, the study’s lead author, Neha Pathak, envisions a time when home-based urine tests for HPV will be available to screen for cervical cancer. “Imagine if you’re in a village in the middle of nowhere. You don’t have much access at all to doctors and nurses on a daily basis. It would be fantastic if you could just put it in a pot, send if off. Two weeks later you’d get told your results.” In the meantime, Pathak notes that her findings “have to be interpreted with caution.” But she says urine tests for HPV infection deserve to be explored “with some priority and urgency.”

Urine Test Could Replace More Invasive HPV Screening

 

[Delta4Embassy]

ScienceDaily (Jan. 14, 2010) — A groundbreaking study of couples led by Professor Eduardo Franco, Director of McGill University's Cancer Epidemiology Unit, in collaboration with a team of colleagues from McGill and Université de Montréal/Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), found more than half (56 per cent) of young adults in a new sexual relationship were infected with human papillomavirus (HPV). Of those, nearly half (44 per cent) were infected with an HPV type that causes cancer.

Most (56 percent) of young adults in new sexual relationship infected with HPV, study finds

HPV and condoms:

Genital ulcer diseases and HPV infections

* Genital ulcer diseases and HPV infections can occur in both male and female genital areas that are covered or protected by a latex condom, as well as in areas that are not covered. Consistent and correct use of latex condoms reduces the risk of genital herpes, syphilis, and chancroid only when the infected area or site of potential exposure is protected. Condom use may reduce the risk for HPV infection and HPV-associated diseases (e.g., genital warts and cervical cancer).

Genital ulcer diseases include genital herpes, syphilis, and chancroid. These diseases are transmitted primarily through “skin-to-skin” contact from sores/ulcers or infected skin that looks normal. HPV infections are transmitted through contact with infected genital skin or mucosal surfaces/secretions. Genital ulcer diseases and HPV infection can occur in male or female genital areas that are covered (protected by the condom) as well as those areas that are not.

Laboratory studies have demonstrated that latex condoms provide an essentially impermeable barrier to particles the size of STD pathogens.

Theoretical basis for protection. Protection against genital ulcer diseases and HPV depends on the site of the sore/ulcer or infection. Latex condoms can only protect against transmission when the ulcers or infections are in genital areas that are covered or protected by the condom. Thus, consistent and correct use of latex condoms would be expected to protect against transmission of genital ulcer diseases and HPV in some, but not all, instances.

Epidemiologic studies that compare infection rates among condom users and nonusers provide evidence that latex condoms provide limited protection against syphilis and herpes simplex virus-2 transmission. No conclusive studies have specifically addressed the transmission of chancroid and condom use, although several studies have documented a reduced risk of genital ulcers associated with increased condom use in settings where chancroid is a leading cause of genital ulcers.

Condom use may reduce the risk for HPV-associated diseases (e.g., genital warts and cervical cancer) and may mitigate the other adverse consequences of infection with HPV; condom use has been associated with higher rates of regression of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) and clearance of HPV infection in women, and with regression of HPV-associated penile lesions in men. A limited number of prospective studies have demonstrated a protective effect of condoms on the acquisition of genital HPV.

While condom use has been associated with a lower risk of cervical cancer, the use of condoms should not be a substitute for routine screening with Pap smears to detect and prevent cervical cancer, nor should it be a substitute for HPV vaccination among those eligible for the vaccine.
CDC - Condom Effectiveness - Male Latex Condoms and Sexually Transmitted Diseases