Cervical Cancer And Genital Warts: How Does HPV Cause These Condition? - Dr. Magtibay
Dr. Magtibay describes how the HPV virus, which is responsible for more than 80 percent of cervix cancers, causes these cancer and genital warts. Dr. Paul Magtibay is a gynecological cancer specialist at Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Dr. Magtibay:
But we don’t know necessarily is it a tumor suppressor gene or an oncogene that’s activated in both these viruses but a great deal of study is going on as we speak with the HPV virus and cervix cancer.
A woman could have genital warts without visually seeing them because they often times are just inside the vaginal area. Most of the time these are small and fairly insignificant. It’s when they get larger or symptomatic or a concern that they may be cancerous that they need to be treated.
