What Is High-Risk HPV?
According to the different pathogenicity or carcinogenicity of HPV subtypes, HPVs can be divided into two categories: low-risk and high-risk. High-risk type: In addition to causing genital warts, it is more important to cause external genital cancer, cervical cancer, and high cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, such as: hpv16, hpv18, hpv31, hpv33, hpv35, hpv45, hpv51, hpv52, hpv56 , Hpv58, hpv61, etc., especially hpv16, hpv18.
High-risk HPV
- Western Medicine Name
- High-risk HPV
- Chinese Medicine Name
- High-risk HPV
- English name
- hpv
- Affiliated Department
- Internal Medicine-Oncology
- Whether to enter health insurance
- Yes
- According to the different pathogenicity or carcinogenicity of HPV subtypes, HPVs can be divided into two categories: low-risk and high-risk. High-risk type: In addition to causing genital warts, it is more important to cause external genital cancer, cervical cancer, and high cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, such as: hpv16, hpv18, hpv31, hpv33, hpv35, hpv45, hpv51, hpv52, hpv56 , Hpv58, hpv61, etc., especially hpv16, hpv18.
- High-risk HPV infections are usually asymptomatic, and HPV infections are very common in most countries. According to WHO research statistics, the number of people who have been infected with HPV is 50% among men and women during sexually active periods, and it has increased to 80% by the age of 50, so it is the world's largest infectious disease. Every year around 10-15% of new cases are reported worldwide. Although most women have a relatively short HPV infection period, usually around 8-10 months, there are still about 10-15% of women over 35 years of age with persistent infections. These women who continue to be infected with HPV are at a higher risk of developing cervical cancer. In the past, due to the lack of highly sensitive and specific HPV diagnostic reagents, about 70% of infected people could not detect HPV in the first two years. Most women infected with HPV will develop mild cervical injuries, and most mild injuries will recover automatically. Studies have shown that about 15% of people with HPV infection will develop severe injuries within two years, and severe cervical injuries are likely to develop into malignant cancer. According to statistics, about one-third of severe cervical injuries will be within 10 years (many Cases found that the rate of cancer transformation can be as short as three years). There is still a lack of effective measures in diagnosis and prevention.