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HPV/cervical cancer vaccine prevention strategies

Discuss your prevention strategies, share your stories and help others ask the right questions about the HPV vaccine.

Recurrence of same hpv type after 6 month mark

brieaukirsch
  • By brieaukirsch · New reply June 28, 2009
  • 7 replies
  • Hi all, it is well established that clearance of hpv 6 months post treatment is an excellent indicator that dysplasia will not recur, and that the hpv will stay "cleared" (whatever that means whether ...

Starting discussions here are Hard!

deblvsgiants
  • By deblvsgiants · New reply June 25, 2009
  • 3 replies
  • What on earth support group is this? I can't find my way around, and keep getting support emails from the same person, who, God Bless her soul, is welcoming everyone. Is there a regular forum that we ...

CIN 2 and HPV vaccine

Miriamka
  • By Miriamka · New reply June 22, 2009
  • 2 replies
  • Hello, 3 weeks ago I underwent cone biopsy. The tests from the cut issue have shown that some ill issue still remained in me - CIN II. After my talks to physicians, I feel quite desperate- it seems that ...

HPV/CIN1 AND NOW A TUMOR?....

sonia40
  • By sonia40 · New reply June 22, 2009
  • 8 replies
  • Hi all you wonderful and understanding ladies..after not being treated very nicely at the womens hospital here in melbourne (australia) regarding me having cin1/hpv i decided to get a second opinion so ...

Separate scraping for hpv test (Digene hc2)?

brieaukirsch
  • By brieaukirsch · New reply June 19, 2009
  • 7 replies
  • Ladies, it has always been my understanding that the Digene hc2 is run from the same test (scraping/sample) as the pap. I thought that's why they call it "reflex testing"...in that most doctors will run ...

PCR test!

brieaukirsch
  • By brieaukirsch · New reply June 18, 2009
  • 1 reply
  • Looks like this is commercially available? Anyone had this done? Maybe even a regular doc can order this instead of a teaching institution doc? http://www.esoterix.com/files/ss_hpvdetx .pdf (for those ...

Malawi, AFRICA- STOP CERVICAL CANCER/HPV

aileen
  • By aileen · New reply June 13, 2009
  • 2 replies
  • BELOW IS A REPLY BLOG/EDITORIAL FROM THE NCCC REGARDING A NEWS STORY ABOUT NEW CERVICAL CANCER SCREENING PROGRAM IN MALAWI, AFRICA. Alan PLEASE NOTE: Over the course of the NCCC's history, we have helped ...

Green Tea Study through Arizona Cancer Center

ShaundraNCCC-AZ
  • By ShaundraNCCC-AZ · Posted June 1, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • http://uanews.org/node/24247 Clinical Trial to Study Effects of Green Tea Extract on Cervical Cancer Prevention The Arizona Cancer Center is currently conducting a clinical investigation on the effects ...

HPV66

alwaysmiling
  • By alwaysmiling · Posted May 26, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • Just out of curiosity, does anyone out there have HPV66? What kind of dsyplasia has this caused and where (cervix, endocervical canal...)? There isn't that much information on this strain out there and ...

Anal HPV

hummingbird10
  • By hummingbird10 · New reply May 25, 2009
  • 19 replies
  • If I have tested positive for high risk HPV through a vaginal HPV test will it also show up positive in the anus or are they 2 seperate tests / results? Should I get an anal pap to check for HPV ...

I was infected by my Husband

believer113
  • By believer113 · New reply May 20, 2009
  • 5 replies
  • I recently went to see my OB doctor to follow up on a miscarriage. Everything is back to normal with the miscarriage but I tested positive for HPV. Having only had one sexual partner (my Husband) he infected ...

sex after colposcopy

hummingbird10
  • By hummingbird10 · New reply May 16, 2009
  • 8 replies
  • After getting my colposcopy results back I have been diagnosed with LSIL... I will not have a pap again for 6 months... I cant remember how long my doctor said to wait to have sex after the colposcopy ...

HPV BOMB - IVF Hormones + unsterilized gyn utensils + HPV ???

astrocat88
  • By astrocat88 · New reply May 11, 2009
  • 10 replies
  • I want to say this: I have never been sexually active. I have had 5 partners in my 43 years (one when I was 22 w/out condom, then my husband, then I divorced, then two w/condom, and now my partner of ...

What is it really

Alicia2233
  • By Alicia2233 · New reply May 3, 2009
  • 3 replies
  • I want to know how hpv effects ur body ...

Gardasil- Good or bad for women with hpv.

sj2088
  • By sj2088 · New reply May 2, 2009
  • 2 replies
  • Ive read several different opinions on the effect of the Gardasil vaccine for women who already have a strain of hpv. I have high risk hpv and was recommend the Gardasil vaccine not as a way to boost ...

Web site!

amberlucas
  • By amberlucas · New reply April 17, 2009
  • 2 replies
  • Hey everyone I started a web site not totally done (by far lol) but check it out and tell me what you guys think I got some basic info about HPV and if anyone would like something on there that isnt let ...

oral sex

joel75
  • By joel75 · New reply April 10, 2009
  • 5 replies
  • after doing some more research about HPV I read that hpv can certainly be in other areas of the body, and those can be impacted, just like the cervix (such as your anus or mouth....and, there are studies ...

Colposcope Information

AimeeAnn
  • By AimeeAnn · New reply March 31, 2009
  • 3 replies
  • I had my colposcope today and was told that my papsmear revealed that I have a level 2 of abnormal cells. Which I have no idea what that means cause I was to nervous at the time of the procedure to even ...

hpv positive and high risk of cervial cancer

flowergirl115
  • By flowergirl115 · New reply March 25, 2009
  • 4 replies
  • hello im soo glad i found this website..in the past few days ive been freaking out back in may of 2008 i found out i am hpv positive and at a high risk of cervical cancer.. its been 10 months later and ...

Testing men for HPV

iridefreely
  • By iridefreely · New reply March 25, 2009
  • 5 replies
  • I have a question for everyone... Post LEEP - did any of your doctors tell you to have your husband/boyfriend tested for HPV? My doctor gave me a list of urologists to give to my husband so he could get ...

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