Do genital warts turn into cancer?
This lesson is part of the WARTES HPV Masterclass. Preview: the first part of the narration.
You noticed a wart in your genital area. You searched online, and words like HPV, cervical cancer and penile cancer came up. And this question came to your mind: "Will this wart turn into cancer one day?" First, let me give you some reassuring news: the great majority of genital warts are not precancerous.
Imagine 100 patients with genital warts. In about 90 of them, the warts are caused by HPV types 6 and 11. These are low-risk types: they cause warts, but under normal conditions they do not lead to cancer. The types linked to cancer are high-risk types such as 16 and 18; we will talk about them in detail in the next video.
But there is an important detail: low-risk and high-risk types can be found in the same person.
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