If your a guy is there a test that will let you know if you have HPV?

Question

If your a guy is there a test that will let you know if you have HPV?

Answer 1

No.  Not yet.  

Aside from a visual inspection, there is no useful clinical test for men.

Answer 2

Testing men is done is research..can not you get an HPV test a your local doc or health care center...

HPV testing is a little strange..because you can carry HPV...and the viral levels being low...so it is not showing in any test...

Men are half the problem we need testing done yearly for the male as the female…and as with the female..through our your life.  If all that was done was the vinegar wrap...many men would know they carry the virus...due to genital warts often being so small that they are not seen very easily...also know that with new studies it tells us that 20 to 50% of all people with visible genital warts may also carry a co-infection with high risk HPV types...

Better education...better knowledge...and better screening need to happen.

I wish you well.

Here are some studies for you.

Study charts HPV prevalence

Published:

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:10 AM CDT

Researchers from the Arizona Cancer Center recently completed a study

on the prevalence of the anal human papillomavirus (HPV) in

heterosexual men.

Much research concerning HPV has focused mainly on women — for example,

developing a vaccine for HPV in women — and on homosexual men.

Of the 222 men in the study from Tucson and Tampa, Fla., who

acknowledged having had no prior sexual intercourse with other men,

nearly 25 percent were found to have an anal HPV infection. Of the men

with infections, 33.3 percent had at least one of 13 types that

eventually lead to cancer.

The researchers have secured funding from the National Cancer Institute

to replicate the study in a larger group of men from the United States,

Mexico, and Brazil.

UA study finds high rate of HPV in heterosexual men

HEIDI ROWLEY

Tucson Citizen

One-fourth of the heterosexual men in an Arizona Cancer Center study

had a sexually transmitted disease that is considered the primary

cause of anal cancer in men and cervical cancer in women.

The study, published in June in the Journal of Infectious Diseases,

looked at anal human papillomavirus (HPV) in heterosexual men who

reported having s*x with a woman in the past year.

The link between HPV and cervical cancer in women led to the

development of a preventative vaccine for women.

No such vaccine exists for men but one is being tested, the Centers

for Disease Control and Prevention reports.

"This is important for understanding whether the vaccine might have

some potential use in men, too," said Alan Nyitray, research

scientist at the University of Arizona's Mel and Enid Zuckerman

College of Public Health, who analyzed the study data.

According to National Cancer Institute data, anal cancer in men

nearly tripled between 1973 and 2005, Nyitray said.

The institute estimates that 2,020 men will be diagnosed with and 250

men will die of anal cancer in 2008.

The study looked at 253 men in Tucson and Tampa, Fla. Of those, 222

men said they had no prior sexual intercourse with a man. Of that

number, 24.8 percent had anal HPV.

"I think it's important for people not to be too alarmed by this,"

Nyitray,said. "There's a lot to learn about HPV and a lot of

misunderstanding about HPV."

Little research has been done on anal HPV and men, and most previous

studies focused on homosexual men. According to the CDC, there are no

health screenings for men to detect HPV. Genital HPV can exhibit

itself as a wart, but HPV is most often symptomless. The CDC also

reports that HPV will often clear up on its own within two years of a

person's being infected.

There are more than 100 types of HPV, 30 to 40 of which are

transmitted sexually. Of those, 13 may lead to anal cancer.

Of the men with anal HPV infection, 33.3 percent had at least one of

the HPV types that may lead to cancer.

Based on the results of the Tucson study, the National Cancer

Institute is funding a study of about 1,200 men from the U.S., Mexico

and Brazil.

Nyitray, who wrote the grant request for the follow-up study, said

the second study will help determine "whether our result from the

first study was unique."

"We didn't expect that number," he said, referring to the almost 25

percent. "It's a real interesting finding that we need to look at

closer."

The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa is

collaborating with the UA on both studies.

Discovery of HPV in male oral cancers leads to vaccination call

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 | 11:40 AM ET

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CBC News

There's growing evidence that the virus that causes cervical cancer

in women is also linked to cancers in men, leading health

professionals to call for an HPV vaccination program for boys.

Janet Dollin, the president of the Federation of Medical Women of

Canada, said pu

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