Human Papilloma Virus

Rampant HPV Poses Billion-Dollar Public Health Dilemma

Published in Cancer Weekly, February 16th, 1998

The women who test positive for the human papilloma virus at Brenda Slade's clinic always ask the same panicked questions, and every time Slade is forced to give them the same answer: We don't know.

We don't know if you can ever get rid of it. We don't know if condoms can protect your future sex partners. We don't know if it will give you cervical cancer.

With other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), "you can do something to treat it and it goes away," said Slade, who runs the women's health clinic at Columbia University in New York City. "For HPV it's much more vague. ... It could be a lifelong condition, but we don't know. That's what...

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