Recently, whether in the clinical work or in the network consultation platform, we often encountered some patients have certain misunderstandings about HPV infection, and I think it is necessary to give you some scientific knowledge about HPV here. HPV is called human papillomavirus in Chinese, and this virus is relatively common in nature. Generally speaking, HPV mainly infects the squamous epithelium of the skin mucosa, and it can cause benign or malignant tumors of the epithelial tissue. It is divided into two types of low-risk and high-risk. The low-risk type mainly infects the skin, toes, vulva ah and other parts of the body, causing the corresponding common warts, plantar warts, condyloma acuminata. The high-risk type is more likely to invade women’s cervix, which can lead to precancerous lesions or even cancer of the cervix, which is what women are most disturbed and anxious about, so when it comes to HPV, they immediately think about whether they have cervical cancer. In fact, this is not the same thing. To be exact, HPV infection can be detected in all cervical cancer patients, but conversely, HPV infection does not necessarily mean cervical cancer. In fact, the occurrence of cervical cancer is a very long process, firstly, there is a continuous infection of HPV virus, secondly, the resistance and immunity of human body is low, and finally, the virus is integrated into human cells, thus abnormal proliferation occurs, which eventually leads to cervical cancer. In clinical practice, it is found that the actual age of developing cervical cancer is around 40 years old, while the incidence rate is significantly lower for those who are especially under 25 years old, so most of the young women are infected with HPV mostly in a transient manner. It has been reported that most sexually active people (about 75%), at some time in their lives, may have HPV infection. Because HPV infection is usually asymptomatic, most of these people are not even aware that they have the infection. Therefore, we recommend that women over the age of 25 who are sexually active should only be screened for HPV, and once they are tested positive for high-risk types, there is no need to worry, as they can be retested six months or a year apart. In addition, we also found that HPV infection is more common in women between the ages of 18-45, so it can be judged that HPV infection is related to the more active sexual life of people in this age group, so sex can lead to HPV infection, especially women with many sexual partners are more likely to be infected, but most people can avoid infection through the standard use of condoms. For women older than 40 years old, HPV infection should be taken seriously. Once HPV is detected during routine gynecological examinations, it should be combined with TCT to clarify whether there are any cytological abnormalities. For the treatment of HPV, there is no definitive cure. In clinical practice, drugs such as povidone-based suppositories, compound sea buckthorn seed oil suppositories and interferon are often given as an aid, but the efficacy is uncertain. In fact, the main thing is to observe and follow up, HPV infection is not terrible, the terrible thing is not to review, not to follow up. Therefore, only regular checkups and timely detection of abnormal signals emitted in the body can prevent some cervical diseases from occurring.