Cervical cancer has shown no genetic or increased risk of abnormal pap tests, or cervical cancer for daughters and grand-daughters of cervical cancer patients. HPV cancer does not fall into the same pattern as some other cancers, such as bowel cancer and breast cancer which do run in families.
Thanks for the info! I have a friend whose mother had cervical cancer, and she’s always been worried about it.
True, but it is an extremely common virus that also happens to be an STD. My family and my wife’s family both already have a very high incidence of various cancers other than cervical. This at least lets us knock ONE of the possible cancers out of the running. I believe that I mentioned in one of my other posts on this thread that we depend on the heart attacks to save us from cancer in my family? Not to mention that one of my daughters is a teen, and the other is a pre-teen, so I’m not prepared to make any bets on how they will behave, despite our family discussions of the risks and liabilities. Nor that whoever they eventually choose as husbands or whatever will have been any more careful than they have been...