If a person has HPV Virus in the Vagina, can that virus be?

transmitted to the rectum, AND could that virus cause rectal cancer??
Just a thought...

I just spoke w/a nurse practitioner last month who is actually doing research on rectal HPV in homosexual men. They are looking at Gardasil vaccinations for this population, and he is involved in the case studies. So, to answer your question, not only possible but likely!

yes, absolutely!! I just read about this.

30 Genital human papilloma virus types (HPV) can affect the cervix, vulva, vaginal canal, the urethra, the perianal area and the anal canal and now we hear that HPV is.

HPV is found in 99.7% of all cervical cancer 80% of all vulva cancers most all vaginal cancers most all anal cancer and man head and neck cancers.

Women who have CIN 3 may also have a higher risk factor for HPV in the anal canal. Women that have anal sex have a much higher risk factor for developing anal HPV infections...some women who have never had anal sex do have HPV of the anal canal.

I personally have high risk HPV of the vaginal cuff and of the vulva

I have two gal freinds that have anal cancer...one did engage in anal sex ...another never did...


Colon rectal cancers are different than anal cancers.

Women with HPV Grade 3 CIN have Increased Incidence of Anogenital
Cancers

Researchers in Sweden have reported that women with grade 3 cervical
intraepithelial neoplasm (CIN) related to human papillomavirus (HPV)
infection are also at increased risk for the development of cancer of
the vagina, vulva and anus. The details of this study appeared in the
April, 2007 issue of Lancet Oncology.[1]

Human papilloma viruses are probably the sole cause of cancers of the
cervix and have been associated with cancers of the anogenital tract
in homosexual men. Epidemiologic and molecular biology studies have
also suggested that HPV infection may be associated with cancers of
the head and neck.

The purpose of the present study was to determine the relationship
between HPV related cervical CIN and other anogenital cancers. The
main impetus of this study was to determine the possible effects of
the newly available HPV vaccine on cancers other than cervical. These
authors compared the incidence of cancer of the vagina, vulva and
anus in women with CIN to those without CIN. This data base included
all women in Sweden aged 18-50 in the years 1968 to 2004. These
authors reported that women with grade 3 CIN had a 6.7 fold increase
in the incidence of cancer of the vagina, 2.2 fold increased
incidence of cancer of the vulva and a 4.68 fold increase in the
incidence of anal cancer. They did not find an increased incidence of
rectal cancer. They found that the increased incidence of these
malignancies was age dependent and increased with time from the
original diagnosis of CIN.

In an accompanying editiorial it was stated that "Hopefully, the
protection offered by this vaccine (HPV vaccine) against cervical
cancer might also be seen against the development of vulvar, vaginal,
and anal cancers."[2]

Comments: The same observations about the possible effects of HPV
vaccination can be made about cancers of the head and neck. Thus, it
would appear that the HPV vaccine has the potential of preventing a
variety of HPV related malignancies.

References:

[1] Edgren G, Sparen P. Risk of anogenital cancer after diagnosis of
cervical intraepithelial neoplasia: A prospective population-based
study. Lancet Oncology 2007;8:311-316.

[2] Daling JR. Reflection and Reaction. Risk of anogenital cancer in
women with CIN. Lancet Oncology 2007;8:281-282.