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Cancer-Causing HPV Virus Affects 25 Percent of U.S. Men: Study
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<blockquote data-quote="Nelson Vergel" data-source="post: 68501" data-attributes="member: 3"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">A quarter of men and 20 percent of women have the strain of HPV (human papillomavirus or human wart virus) that causes cancer, new government statistics show.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">And 45 percent of men have some kind of genital HPV, the latest data from the National Center for Health Statistics show.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 12px">For people under 25, there's a vaccine that can protect them from the strains of HPV that cause a range of cancers, from <a href="http://www.cancer.gov/types/head-and-neck/head-neck-fact-sheet" target="_blank">head and neck cancer</a> to cervical cancer. For the rest of the population, the viruses continue to circulate.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 12px">"Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States," the team at the NCHS, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wrote.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 12px">"Some HPV types can cause genital warts and are considered low risk, with a small chance for causing cancer. Other types are considered high risk, causing cancer in different areas of the body including the cervix and vagina in women, penis in men, and anus and oropharynx (mouth and throat) in both men and women."</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 12px">The team looked at large national health surveys, which included HPV tests, taken in 2011 through 2014.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 12px">In 2013 and 2014, 45 percent of all men aged up to 60 had some sort of HPV strain and 25 percent had one of the strains that can cause cancer. Close to 40 percent of women had any type of HPV and 20 percent had a cancer-causing strain, the researchers reported.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nelson Vergel, post: 68501, member: 3"] [SIZE=3][FONT=georgia]A quarter of men and 20 percent of women have the strain of HPV (human papillomavirus or human wart virus) that causes cancer, new government statistics show. And 45 percent of men have some kind of genital HPV, the latest data from the National Center for Health Statistics show. [/FONT] [/SIZE][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Fakt][FONT=Tiempos][SIZE=3]For people under 25, there's a vaccine that can protect them from the strains of HPV that cause a range of cancers, from [URL="http://www.cancer.gov/types/head-and-neck/head-neck-fact-sheet"]head and neck cancer[/URL] to cervical cancer. For the rest of the population, the viruses continue to circulate.[/SIZE][/FONT] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Fakt][FONT=Tiempos][SIZE=3]"Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States," the team at the NCHS, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wrote.[/SIZE][/FONT] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Fakt][FONT=Tiempos][SIZE=3]"Some HPV types can cause genital warts and are considered low risk, with a small chance for causing cancer. Other types are considered high risk, causing cancer in different areas of the body including the cervix and vagina in women, penis in men, and anus and oropharynx (mouth and throat) in both men and women."[/SIZE][/FONT] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Fakt][FONT=Tiempos][SIZE=3]The team looked at large national health surveys, which included HPV tests, taken in 2011 through 2014.[/SIZE][/FONT] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Fakt][FONT=Tiempos][SIZE=3]In 2013 and 2014, 45 percent of all men aged up to 60 had some sort of HPV strain and 25 percent had one of the strains that can cause cancer. Close to 40 percent of women had any type of HPV and 20 percent had a cancer-causing strain, the researchers reported. [/SIZE][/FONT] [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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