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- From: fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk)
- Subject: Re: Cervical Dysplasia Questions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.031443.28306@cs.rochester.edu>
- Organization: University of Rochester
- References: <1993Jan22.193603.10478@ac.dal.ca>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:14:43 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.193603.10478@ac.dal.ca> guruman@ac.dal.ca writes:
- >I have a few questions about cervical dysplasia, any help would be appreciated.
-
- I went through an experience with this with my SO several years ago;
- take the following cum grano salis.
-
- >1) Cervical dysplasia is a a)bacteria, b)virus c) a state of cells.
-
- c) a state of cells. A pathologist makes the determination based on the
- appearance of cervical epithelial cells under the microscope; the cells
- come in the Pap smear.
-
- >2) CD is a communicable disease ?
- >
- >3) Venereal Warts are a majour cause of CD ?
- > if yes, must HPV be present in infected person, or is exposure to HPV
- > enough?
- >4) Cervical Dysplasia can be carried by men. ??
-
- It is believed that human papilloma virus, which causes warts, is responsible
- for most or all cases of CD. Virgin women never, or at least almost never,
- get CD. Women whose (male) partners have genital warts get CD more often.
- I don't believe that exclusively homosexual women get CD very often, so it
- probably depends on the introduction of HPV into the vagina.
-
- >5) It is totally treatable, and any re-occurrence is a new infection. ??
-
- It is impossible to tell a new occurrence from a relapse, but generally,
- this is thought to be true, at least if the CD is caught early enough.
-
- >6) If antibiotics are used to treat CD, then mustn't it be a bacteria?
-
- I'm not aware of antibiotics being used to treat CD. On the other hand,
- I can imagine using antibiotics prophylactically if a surgical treatment
- was fairly extensive (a "conization", say).
-
- >Any help would alleviate a lot of confusion for me.
- >Thanks very much in advance.
- >-Rob
- >guruman@ac.dal.ca
-
- Remember Dr. Papanicalaou in your prayers. His smear saves thousands of
- women's lives, and many more uteruses, per year.
- --
- Mark A. Fulk University of Rochester
- Computer Science Department fulk@cs.rochester.edu
-