GENITAL WARTS

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This is gonna be a long one! Sorry! I'm recently divorced, we were married almost 15 years, I was faithful, apperently he wasn't, when I caught him cheating I made him leave. About ten years ago I had cervical cancer, I had a hystorectomy. I've been fine every since. I've heard that he has cancer in his rectum. And was being treated with acid~~I began searching online for it and discovered that cancer isn't treated with acid, but genital warts are, SO, I put two and two together and realized that I probably had the H.P.V. virus when I had the cancer "no-one told me". I called my dr. and I did have the virus. Now I'm wondering, could he have had this virus this long, and only within the last couple of years it's turning into cancer, or is this something he recently picked up? How long does it take for genital warts, which I don't have by the way, to turn into cancer? I'm still very much mourning this marriage, but he's remarried and has a new child. I just am wondering, was he more then likely cheating that long ago to pick it up, we were married about 4 or 5 years when I got the cancer, and I had had a child in between and If anyone saw that I had the virus then, they didn't tell me. If he had it all those years ago, would it be possible for him to have passed it to me and not have any visible signs of it himself till now? And finally, is it gonna kill him? Or can u survive this? Thanks.....

He has cancer "in" his rectum? Colon cancer??? If it really is cancer, I really doubt it has anything to do with HPV... especially in the rectum/colon.There are many strains of the HPV virus. Those which show up as "warts", rarely become cancerous. The others(non-visible) are however one of leading causes of cervical cancer in women. Men on the other hand, are much less likely to develop any type of cancer due to HPV.

I honestly don't know much, only hear say. One of his family members told me over a year ago that he had cancer and it was being treated with acid. I did the bulk of my research then. I couldn't find anywhere that said cancer was treated with acid, only gential warts. I don't know if it's "in" his rectum, or not. But it was my understanding that gential warts can cause cancer in men. ????

Yes it can, but it's not going to happen just anywhere. If it's in his rectum, well I guess if there was some anal stuff going on, I guess the virus could be introduced into his rectum.

Is is possible to get genital warts other than sexually transmitted?

It's always possible. If someone were to wipe with a towel and they had active viral shedding, it is conceiveable that the virus could be passed to another person if they used the same towel within a reasonable period. The same applies to hands etc....

Thanks.

So if my brother has genital warts and he used one of those sponge things in the shower and around an hour or so later I used it could I have contracted genital warts? Another question is do you only have genital warts breakouts on places that have been contacted by genital warts? Not sure if I have it or not just having some uncomfort around my anus.

Genital warts attacks the mucous membranes, the skin around the mucous membranes, etc. The virus that causes the warts, hpv (human papilloma virus) is what makes the cancer of the cervix. What happens is that the virus is there and makes the cells 'precancerous', then leading to the cancer.

Yes, I would say that you probably got them from him. He could have gotten the virus before he met you and not really had outward signs of the warts, yet was still contagious.

I would agree that he has warts that they are treating with acid. I am almost positive that he probably has some precancerous cells, or cancerous cells in the rectum, since if it can do that to the cervix, it makes sense that it can be doing that to the mucous membranes of the rectum and anus...

Oh, and about the part about him dying from this.... Possibly, but chances are he would vote to have his rectum removed and live with a colostomy before he would die from it. Which should be poetic justice in my opinion...K