Cervical Cancer

HPV vaccination may eradicate cervical cancer

harminka — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:48:22 -0500

Cervical cancer could be eradicated within the next 50 years if countries implement national screening programmes based on detection of the human papilloma virus (HPV), which causes the disease, together with vaccination programmes against the virus, according to a cervical cancer screening expert.

Few women with abnormal paps receive follow-up care

harminka — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:41:16 -0500

Less than half of Ontario women with abnormal Pap tests receive recommended and potentially life-saving follow-up care, according to a new women's health study by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). What's more, low-income women are less likely to be screened for cancer compared to their high-income counterparts.

Jade Goody: so brave in death.

Margaret Wilde — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:43:41 -0500

Jade Goody had an appallingly deprived and tragic childhood - see Damian Thompson's eulogy - but seized every opportunity her brief life offered to improve on the poor hand that life had dealt her.

Genetic differences to protect women against cervical cancer

harminka — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:35:28 -0500

Women with certain gene variations appear to be protected against cervical cancer, according to a study led by scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and reported in Clinical Cancer Research. Knowing whether or not women have these genetic variants could help physicians to better tailor treatment strategies.

MRI, PET/CT improve cervical cancer treatment chances

harminka — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:38:08 -0600

Pretreatment MRI and PET/CT for cervical cancer may direct more women to optimal therapy choices and spare many women potential long-term morbidity and complications of trimodality therapy (surgery followed by chemoradiation), according to a study performed at the Institute for Technology Assessment in Boston, MA.

Researchers report breakthrough in HPV research

harminka — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:25:56 -0600

UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) researchers have developed a new, inexpensive and efficient method for producing and studying a type of human papillomavirus (HPV) that causes cervical cancer. The process could speed understanding of how the virus functions and causes diseases, and lead to new prevention or treatment options.

New MRI technique may identify cervical cancer early

harminka — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:56:10 -0500

Using high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with a special vaginal coil, a technique to measure the movement of water within tissue, researchers may be able to identify cervical cancer in its early stages, according to a new study being published in the November issue of Radiology.

Cancer screening rates fall short of national objectives

harminka — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:07:22 -0500

Only about half of Medicaid recipients age 50 and older appear to receive recommended screening tests for colorectal, breast and cervical cancer, according to a report in the October 13 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Social class dictates cancer risk

harminka — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:19:03 -0500

Cervical and lung cancer are more common in poor people while rates of breast cancer and melanoma are higher in the wealthy.

Measuring Cancer therapy success with Oxygen

harminka — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:22:07 -0500

Scientists at The Ohio State University (OSU) have identified a way to predict very early in the treatment process the outcome of radiation and chemotherapy for cervical cancer patients -- based on oxygen levels within the tumor.

Obese women in Canada are less to be screened for cervical cancer

harminka — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:51:04 -0500

Research in the United States has shown that obese people are less likely than their normal-weight peers to undergo screening for breast, colon and cervical cancer.

Obesity may keep some women from getting screened for breast, cervical cancer

harminka — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:43:49 -0500

A review of cancer screening studies shows that white women who are obese are less likely than healthy weight women to get the recommended screenings for breast and cervical cancer, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Public Health.