This video features Dr. Sanda Moldovan advising viewers on self-examination of the throat (checking the back of the throat and tonsils) as a preliminary screening step, and a second speaker clarifying that an HPV-positive test does not mean the patient has cancer and that HPV infection cannot be distinguished by visual inspection alone — a swab/test is required.
Now probably some of you listening today are thinking, oh, I'm going to go look in the mirror and say, oh my God, is my throat red? Are my tonsils enlarged? But I always recommend go ahead and do a self exam. Let's say you haven't been to the dentist or until you make it to the dentist, always check, you know, check the back of your throat. How are your tonsils looking? Are your tonsils enlarged? Are your tonsils enlarged? Pretty much all the time. That might be a good indication that a test like this would reveal why that would occur. There are a.
Couple of thoughts that came to me when you were mentioning that. Number one, a patient who's positive does not have cancer. Number two, when you examine locally, you wouldn't be able to tell an HPV positive from HPV negative, meaning that you have to really swab because HPV positive is not recognizable just by looking.
