Last Week on HPV’s Girls

“If you have HPV, it’s probably not going to mean anything. It doesn’t mean you’re going to get cancer. As long as you get your follow-up tests, cervical cancer is the most preventable cancer.”
— If the third episode of ‘Girls’ threw you for an HPV loop (why did she get tested, why does she call it precancer, why does that guy say he tested negative, etc.), the Times Well blog parses it all out. Plus there’s our handy-dandy Guide to Your Abnormal Pap Smear that has the pictures of cervixes in bowties. Hellooo!

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