“My vital prognosis was compromised”: her papillomavirus caused two cancers, says this young woman from Azure
Unprotected sex nearly cost Stacy her life. The responsible? The papilloma virus, a family of viruses that cause sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and, in the most serious cases, cancer. Every year, some 6,400 cases of HPV (human papillomavirus) related cancers are diagnosed in France, mainly of the cervix (44%), anus (24%) and oropharynx (22%), in …