{"id":3562,"date":"2023-11-21T11:12:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T09:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/hpv-and-cancer\/how-do-you-explain-that-many-people-are-infected-by-hpv-viruses-but-only-a-few-have-serious-problems-from-them\/"},"modified":"2023-11-21T11:12:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T09:12:32","slug":"how-do-you-explain-that-many-people-are-infected-by-hpv-viruses-but-only-a-few-have-serious-problems-from-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/hpv-diseases\/basic-knowledge\/how-do-you-explain-that-many-people-are-infected-by-hpv-viruses-but-only-a-few-have-serious-problems-from-them\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you explain that many people are infected by HPV viruses but only a few have serious problems from them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The type of the virus plays an important role. However, the immune system (the human body\u2019s defense mechanism) and the good function of the body\u2019s tumor-suppressing mechanisms are more important.\u00a0For example, HPV 16 is the\u00a0most oncogenic type of HPV and causes persistent infections. We know, however, that many women infected with HPV 16 on the cervix suppress the infection within 2-3 years without any consequences. Despite this, in some cases infections from HPV 16 on the cervix are persistent. It is obvious that the immune system of these women cannot control and suppress\u00a0them. A significant percentage of these women will develop premalignant lesions and, later on, cervical cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The type of the virus plays an important role. However, the immune system (the human body\u2019s defense mechanism) and the good function of the body\u2019s tumor-suppressing mechanisms are more important.\u00a0For example, HPV 16 is the\u00a0most oncogenic type of HPV and causes persistent infections. We know, however, that many women infected with HPV 16 on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortakis.hpvinfocenter.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}