A direct relationship between cervical cancer and human papilloma virus, the so-called HPV, and especially its high-risk types 16 and 18, has been confirmed. The rule that applies today is as follows: there is no cervical cancer without a HPV infection. There is no cure for the virus, although great success has been achieved by interferon vaginalettes as well as a recently developed vaccine.
Adolescents are at the highest risk as the virus might be transmitted to them from their infected partner. Their unprepared cervical epithelium tissue first reacts with an inflammation, and then it changes towards the early stages of cancer. These inflammatory and other abnormal cell changes are detected by the Pap test indirectly showing the presence of the infection. The virus itself is confirmed by the so-called genotyping technique. At the Eljuga Polyclinic, we therefore pay special attention to proper Pap screening and timely HPV typing to detect any changes as early as possible and thus allow their conservative, simple and effective treatment.
