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Originally Posted by Miss Mango
My mom got cervical cancer and cancer of the womb because my dad had been with a lot of previous partners...and its always made me weary of such things.
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Careful,
The link between cervical cancer and her male partner is not the issue of the number of his previous sexual partners, it's HPV.
HPV is present in virtually every case of cervical cancer, though having HPV certainly does not mean that you are going to get cervical cancer by any means. There is a link however.
Keep in mind that 80% of the population carries the HP virus, it is very common and you are almost guaranteed to contract it in your lifetime. You could have sex with 1 person and you are exposed to it.
Hence the need for the vacine that is coming to the market just now (and remarkably, there is debate about whether young girls should receive this vacine from the religious whackos out there.)