http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. In Kenya, women face a cervical cancer mortality rate that is approximately 10 times as high as in the United States. A study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests that training women to self-collect genital samples to test for human papillomavirus (HPV), the causative agent of cervical cancer, can increase the coverage rates of cervical cancer screening. Higher screening coverage helps increase rates of detection of cervical lesions and ultimately treatment of the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-self-collection-samples-hpv-cervical-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 01 May 2013 15:24:56 EST news286640574 Pioneering biophotonics technology developed at Northwestern University is the first screening method to detect the early presence of ovarian cancer in humans by examining cells easily brushed from the neighboring cervix or uterus, not the ovaries themselves. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-screening-ovarian-cancer-neighboring-cells.html Cancer Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:10:19 EST news285869412 A software program for screening for cervical cancer, particularly in developing countries with limited resources, earned the top award and $10,000 in the Qualcomm Wireless Innovation Prize at UW-Madison. The AlgoCerv software enables people with limited medical training to scan Pap smear slides and provide results to a patient before she leaves the clinic. "It was the right mix of having something that was original and meeting a specific key need," said judge Samir Gupta of Qualcomm, about the project. "The real need in industry was quite clear." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-cancer-screening-software-wireless-competition.html Cancer Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:15:12 EST news285581703 Colonoscopy is one of the most effective cancer screening procedures available. Colon cancer grows very slowly and can be treated if caught early through screening. But, perhaps because of this success, older Americans are undergoing screening colonoscopies despite recommendations against screening in adults aged 76 and older. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-colonoscopies-medicare-patients-potentially-inappropriate.html Cancer Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:09:03 EST news282409737 (HealthDay) -- Testing for HPV, the human papillomavirus linked to cervical cancer, can predict which women will stay cancer-free for a decade or more, a new study shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-hpv-pap-long-term.html Cancer Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:30:01 EST news262891092 A new study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University suggests that HIV-positive women may be able to use new methods that can help to safely reduce the frequency of screening in some women, similar to practices accepted in the general population. The findings will be published in the July 25 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), a theme issue on HIV/AIDS. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-hpv-hiv-positive-women-frequent-cervical.html HIV & AIDS Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:14:15 EST news262188844 Studies currently available provide indications and a "hint" that precursors of cervical cancer can be detected and treated earlier, and consequently tumours occur less often, in women who underwent testing for human papillomavirus (HPV). In this context, an HPV test can be used alone or in addition to a Papanicolaou test (Pap smear). However, both screening procedures also carry a risk of harm in the form of unnecessary treatments after testing (over-treatment). This is the result of a final report published by the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) on 24th of January 2012. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-hpv-indications-benefit-primary-screening.html Cancer Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:01:12 EST news246625261 Researchers in Family and Community Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University recently found that obesity was linked to higher rates of prostate cancer screening across all races/ethnic differences and lower rates of cervical cancer screening, most notably in white women. Their study on the role of obesity in cancer screening rates for prostate, cervical as well as breast and colorectal cancers across race/ethnicity and gender is examined in the current issue of the Journal of Obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-obesity-cancer-screening-gender-role.html Health Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:27:06 EST news245330814 The same filtered light that enables sunglasses to reduce glare may improve a physician's ability to detect early signs of cervical cancer, reducing unnecessary biopsies and surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-polarized-filter-unnecessary-cervical-biopsies.html Other Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:10:02 EST news241781834 Annual cancer tests are becoming a thing of the past. New guidelines out Wednesday for cervical cancer screening have experts at odds over some things, but they are united in the view that the common practice of getting a Pap test every year is too often and probably doing more harm than good. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-annual-cancer-screening-urged.html Cancer Wed, 19 Oct 2011 04:00:01 EST news238213870