Genital Warts Treatments
The primary goal of treating visible genital warts is the removal of symptomatic warts. In most patients, treatment can induce wart-free periods.
If left untreated, visible genital warts may resolve on their own, remain unchanged, or increase in size or number.
Determining whether treatment of genital warts will reduce transmission is difficult, because no laboratory marker of infectivity has been established and because clinical studies evaluating the persistence of HPV DNA in genital tissue after treatment have shown variable results.
Existing data indicate that currently available therapies for genital warts may reduce, but probably do not eradicate, infectivity.
Whether the reduction in viral DNA that results from current treatment regimens impacts future transmission remains unclear.
No evidence indicates that either the presence of genital warts or their treatment is associated with the development of cervical cancer.
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