00:00In the whole month of April, we're going to dedicate it to the HPV infection.
00:05Of course, HPV is always associated with women.
00:09Let's dwell into the figures and what we're looking at.
00:18HPV is a type of virus that can be divided into high-risk and low-risk,
00:23and it tends to affect the genital organs.
00:26Apart from genital organs, it also affects the oral cavity and also the anus.
00:31Therefore, it is well known to cause HPV-related cancers such as cervical cancers.
00:39In fact, believe it or not, HPV actually constitutes about 5% of all cancers,
00:44especially the new cancers associated with such virus.
00:48In fact, as far as women are concerned,
00:52620,000 women every year are affected by HPV.
00:56Half a million of them are probably caused by HPV-related cervical cancer.
01:02But also, women also get oral-related HPV cancer,
01:07and vulva and vaginal cancer, and anal cancer.
01:11But this is something that most people get it wrong,
01:14is because if you assume it's a woman's disease,
01:18then you'll be very surprised,
01:20because 70,000 men are also affected by HPV-related cancers,
01:27and that include penile cancer,
01:30oropharyngeal cancer,
01:31and anal cancer.
01:33Why is this less often happening in men?
01:37It's because when something like this occur inside the penis or anus,
01:43men probably get it detected earlier and get it treated.
01:47But for women, you need to have screening in order to detect that,
01:51and when it occur internally,
01:52it can potentially present it late.
01:55For HPV-related cancer in women,
01:58it tends to happen in low socioeconomic countries.
02:01So it's quite high in about two quarter,
02:04about a quarter of this happen in African countries,
02:07and also in low-income countries.
02:11However, in the actual high-income nations,
02:15you also begin to realize that
02:17when the cervical cancer rates come down,
02:20then the oropharyngeal rates goes up.
02:22In men, it becomes the commonest diagnosed HPV-related cancer,
02:28and that can be as high as 22,000 men
02:31affected by such condition.
02:34For second week,
02:36we want to explore the possibility of men getting HPV.
02:40Stay tuned for next week's Putting Dr. G on the Spot.
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