If you are pregnant and have HPV, you can get genital warts or develop abnormal cell changes on your cervix. Abnormal cell changes can be found with routine cervical cancer screening. You should get routine cervical cancer screening even when you are pregnant.PV is a different virus than HIV and HSV (herpes). HPV is so common that nearly all sexually active men and women get it at some point in their lives. There are many different types of HPV. Some types can cause health problems including genital warts and cancers.
What Perjetaâ¢ Is Used For: Indicated in combination with trastuzumab and docetaxel for the treatment of patients with HER2-positive breast cancer. HER2 expression must be present for initiation of Perjetaâ¢ using FDA-approved test.
HER2 is a protein that helps breast cancer cells grow and spread, and about 15 to 20 percent of breast cancers are HER2-positive, according to the U.S. National Cancer Institute. Herceptin (trastuzumab) -- one of the newer, so-called targeted cancer drugs -- inhibits HER2. But while Herceptin is a standard treatment for later-stage cancer, it wasn't clear whether it helps women with small, stage 1 breast tumors that have not spread to the lymph nodes.