{"id":41358,"date":"2023-01-24T10:13:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T10:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=41358"},"modified":"2023-01-24T10:13:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T10:13:12","slug":"how-a-virus-caught-during-sex-in-your-20s-can-trigger-cervical-cancer-decades-later-study-shows-3-4-of-women-in-the-uk-are-unaware-of-human-papillomavirus-and-its-potentially-devastating-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/01\/24\/how-a-virus-caught-during-sex-in-your-20s-can-trigger-cervical-cancer-decades-later-study-shows-3-4-of-women-in-the-uk-are-unaware-of-human-papillomavirus-and-its-potentially-devastating-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"How a virus caught during sex in your 20s can trigger cervical cancer decades later: Study shows 3\/4 of women in the UK are unaware of human papillomavirus&#8230; and its potentially devastating effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21554\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sexual-health-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sexual-health-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sexual-health-500x361.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sexual-health.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recently, I was diagnosed with an avoidable\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-39247780-9b7a-11ed-a9c5-1f713f4459f4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/cancer\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cancer<\/a><\/span>. Avoidable had I known more about a common cancer-causing virus \u2014 and had I not been misled by a serious gap in the available information. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-11667861\/How-virus-caught-sex-20s-trigger-cervical-cancer-decades-later.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Recently, I was diagnosed with an avoidable\u00a0cancer. Avoidable had I known more about a common cancer-causing virus \u2014 and had I not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/HPV.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41359,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41358\/revisions\/41359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}