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Hello, everyone. This is Karen Nicol family nurse practitioner, and this is Itchy and Bitchie, a podcast that provides answers to your many unanswered health questions.

Again, I want to remind you about my course called the perimenopause answer.

If you are going through this phase of life called parimenopause,

or if you don't know if you're in pari menopause, I would love to have the opportunity to talk to you

about the course to see if it's the right fit for you. There is a link on our website, itchy and

bitchie.com and our Facebook page I and to be podcast, where you can schedule an appointment for a Zoom

call with me. When you make that appointment, I will be sitting at my desk waiting for you

to join the one-on-one Zoom call. This is part two on the subject of HPV, human papillomavirus.

As I mentioned in part one in my practice and in my parameda pause course, I get questions

about the human papillomavirus, HPV, and what kind of risks it poses to women as we age.

In this episode, I will review with you the types of cancers caused by the human papillomavirus

and prevention measures. I will be talking about areas of the body that are impacted by

HPV and about types of sex. So keep that in mind if there are little ones around as you

listen. HPV is the causal agent of around 5% of all cancers worldwide,

along with genital warts and laryngeal papillomas. Both warts and papillomas are not

cancerous. Just as a refresher from last week's episode, there are about 200 strains of HPV.

Of those strains, around 13, carry the ability to cause cancer.

The strains which are most associated with HPV-related cancers are HPV-16 and HPV-18.

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