OTHER NAMES

• VPH,
• papilomavirus

DEFINITION

The viruses of the papilloma human sound the causers of the common warts that appear in the plants of the feet, or in the fingers of the hands, but simultaneously they can cause malignant tumors in the mouth or in the neck of the counterfoil. For this reason it is considered that there are viruses oncogénicos or that they have aptitude to produce cancerous tumors.
It is not the only virus there are more than 100 types of virus.

TRANSMISSION OR CONTAGION

Of all the types of virus of papilloma human being there are more than 30 that can be contagious for sexual contact, but this contagion usually does not prepare síntomatología, therefore it is difficult to define as and when a person has become infected.
In some chaos this infection disappears alone in a few years and in other cases it is persistent and they can alter the normal cells of the organism producing others of cancerous growth.
Most of the women will present an infection for the virus VPH, but only some of them they will have a cervical cancer. For it it seems that the immune system is the manager of eliminating this infection, but in any cases it is not possible, the infection persists and it is possible to produce a cancer.

TYPES OF CANCER THAT THE VPH PRODUCES

The most frequent of the cancers produced by the VPH is the neck of the womb cancer. It is very frequent, but especially it is important since his mortality is 45 %.

On the other hand other types of cancer, less frequent, since they are those of the soil of the mouth, language, palate, year, penis, vulva and vagina are implied straight with this chronic infection with the virus VPH.

PREVENTION

Since it is a sexual transmission, the entire abstention or at least to avoid the sexual promiscuousness, there would be the ideal prevention methods. The use of the condom is not clear that it protects completely of this infection, although if it seems to lower the predominance of the cancer of neck of the womb.

It is not possible to know if a very active person sexually in the past is infected at present of the virus VPH, sometimes cronifica, but not always.

So the prevention stays in hands of the vaccines against the VPH.

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