Quoted message said:DZ said:Quoted message said:THis is another place I was wrong ... so you're right, Lucas,
about
Quoted message said:the
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:one percent and genital warts, since the estimates at the study I
linked actually support what you say. The colors that
represented
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Quoted message said:"prior infection" and "visible genital warts" were close in color
(andQuoted message said:Quoted message said:one was barely visible on the pie chart) and my monitor kind of
sucksQuoted message said:Quoted message said:and I didn't notice the color difference. It's actually 60% of
theirQuoted message said:Quoted message said:population in that study that is estimated to have had "prior
infection" according to the pie chart, NOT visible genital warts
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Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Quoted message said:that's 1%. Im surprised someone else didn't catch it though and
callQuoted message said:Quoted message said:me an idiot for getting the colors mixed up. But, hey, I'll
admit
Quoted message said:to
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:my mistakes when I catch them.
http://www.brown.edu/Courses/Bio_160/Projects1999/hpv/epidem2.html
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Maybe a year from now you can refer your potential mates to big
friendly GSK next state up from you:
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?ID=14925&sd=01/27/05meanwhile they'd likely to be VERY unhappy:
http://tinyurl.com/544dbDZ
I guess I'm coming at this from a male's perspective mostly.
Generally
Quoted message said:speaking, unless they have learned that they have been with a woman
who
Quoted message said:has been shown to have dysplasia (and even then it's not certain),
males are only able to know if they have the low-risk, genital-wart
causing type of HPV. Low risk meaning low risk for cervical cancer.
It's funny or odd in a way. Women who have had dysplasia who don't
inform future partners of it actually aren't putting the male at
risk.
Quoted message said:They're generally putting the future females he's with at risk, since
males don't get "pap smears." But, then again, when you consider
that
Quoted message said:cervical cancer is relatively rare and that women should be getting
pap
Quoted message said:smears since it's impossible to know whether or not they have a
high-risk HPV period, it makes it seem like most people are already
assuming they COULD have a high-risk type of HPV and thus it makes it
seem less "evil" for not telling. In fact, I would go so far as to
say
Quoted message said:that if a sexually-active woman isn't having pap smears at the proper
intervals, the risk either doesn't phase her or she simply doesn't
know. In the latter case, even if a male would be able to know he
had
Quoted message said:a high-risk type of HPV and was able to tell her, it would seem MUCH
more important for her, even if she decided not to sleep with him, to
be able to understand that she could ALREADY have a high-risk type of
HPV and thus needs to get pap smears at proper time intervals.
Withholding that information from someone who doesn't understand
seems
Quoted message said:to be risking their health even more.
Of course, maybe I should clarify. Perhaps not all types of HPV that
cause dyplasia are types that also are high-risk for causing the
dysplasia to turn into a full-blown, out-of-control cancer. I'm
honestly not sure.
Also, I guess a guy could know he has a higher probability of having a
high-risk form of HPV if a woman has ever had cervical cancer and he
sleeps with her , but he would never be able to know for absolute
certain I believe.