HPV virus may not necessarily exist after surgery for cervical cancer. If it is in the early stage and the surgical resection is complete, HPV may turn negative, but if it is in the late stage, the surgery may not be complete and HPV may still be positive.
Early stage cervical cancer is often treated by surgery, which will remove the lesion as much as possible and supplemented by radiotherapy after surgery according to the condition, basically the lesion infected by HPV virus can be removed, and at this time, HPV may turn negative, but it may not be able to eliminate the virus completely, so it is not possible to make a generalization about the presence or absence of HPV virus after surgery for cervical cancer.
In addition, if the cervical cancer is in the middle or late stage, with extensive infiltration, and it is difficult to remove the lesion completely by surgery, HPV may still be positive, and it is necessary to cooperate with interferon and other treatments to clear the HPV infection, and have regular checkups to make sure that the HPV virus has turned negative.
Although the occurrence of cervical cancer is closely related to the infection of HPV, the two treatments cannot be combined into one, and we should not take a chance to think that the HPV virus does not exist after the surgery for cervical cancer. We suggest that the patients should check the HPV regularly, and treat the infection actively in order to avoid the delay of the disease.