A 25-year-old single female comes to the gynecologist's office for a follow-up visit re-lated to her abnormal Papanicolaou (Pap) test. The test revealed that the woman has hu-man papillomavirus (HPV)
The woman asks, "What is that? Can you get rid of it?" Your best response is: a. "It's just a little lump on your cervix. We can freeze it off."
b. "HPV stands for ‘human papillomavirus.' It is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) that may lead to cervical cancer."
c. "HPV is a type of early human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). You will die from this."
d. "You probably caught this from your current boyfriend. He should get tested for this."
B
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A The health care team has a duty to provide proper information to the patient, in-cluding information related to STIs.
B It is important to inform the woman about STIs and the risks involved with HPV.
C HPV and HIV are both viruses that can be transmitted sexually, but they are not the same virus.
D The onset of HPV can be insidious. Often STIs go unnoticed. Abnormal bleed-ing frequently is the initial symptom. The patient may have had HPV before her current boyfriend. You cannot make any deductions from this limited informa-tion.
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