Is HPV66 positive serious?

Since finding HPV positive during routine physical examinations, many women have become uneasy and scared to death: Do I have cancer? Is my blood infected? Who infected me? Some people even told me that they want to have a hysterectomy!... In fact, it is not that scary. Let me explain it to you slowly.

HPV stands for human papillomavirus infection. It has been found that there are more than 100 types of HPV viruses, of which more than 40 types are related to reproductive system infection. Based on its potential to cause cervical cancer, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) divided it into high-risk, suspected high-risk and low-risk types in 2012. The first two are associated with cervical cancer and high-grade private, intravaginal, and cervical squamous intraepithelial lesions (SIL), while the latter is associated with genital warts and low-grade private, intravaginal, and cervical SIL.

related. The common high-risk types are: 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, a total of 12 types; the suspected high-risk types are: 26, 53, 66, 67, 68, 70, 73, 82, a total of 8 types; the low-risk types are: 6, 11, 40, 42, 43, 44, 54, 61, 72, 81, 89, a total of 11 types.

HPV infection of the reproductive system is still relatively common, with the general population infection rate being about 10%. A study in Beijing found that the high-risk HPV infection rate among married and childbearing people is about 9.9%. Although the infection rate is not low, it is due to HPV

After infection, the body's immune system can eliminate HPV. Most genital HPV infections are transient and have no clinical symptoms. About 90% of HPV infections disappear within 2 years. The disappearance time is mainly determined by the HPV type. Low-risk HPV takes 5 to 6 months, and high-risk HPV takes 8 to 24 months. Only a very small number of HPV-infected people will develop clinically visible genital warts, squamous intraepithelial lesions and cancer, so there is no need to worry too much.

Many people wonder how it is transmitted? Direct skin-to-skin contact is the most common way of infection, which of course does not rule out other indirect contact methods. Many Yang friends often suffer from this problem, and more of them think of moral issues, which affect the stability of marriage, love and family. In fact, it is not necessary, because we do not live in a vacuum pump, maintaining a sunny attitude will enhance our own resistance, and also have a positive effect on the elimination of viral infections.

There are currently several methods for HPV testing. The most commonly used method in hospitals is the DNA test of the viral genome, which is mainly divided into HPV clinical diagnostic tests and non-clinical diagnostic tests. The advantages of clinical diagnostic tests are that they can assess the actual type of HPV infection, can assess multi-type and mixed infections, and can distinguish whether it is a persistent infection or reinfection with the same type of HPV.

Non-clinical HPV testing can assess whether it is a high-risk HPV infection and has become one of the main methods of cervical cancer screening. The value can determine the progress. Other HPV

The testing methods include cytological examination of hollow cells, immunohistochemistry testing of HPV antigens, HPV antibody testing, etc. These are rarely used in hospitals.