http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A new cervical cancer drug offers the first good hope of extending life for women with advanced stages of the disease, according to a study published Sunday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-bevacizumab-advanced-cervical-cancer.html Cancer Sun, 02 Jun 2013 14:39:41 EST news289402774 A simple vinegar test slashed cervical cancer death rates by one-third in a remarkable study of 150,000 women in the slums of India, where the disease is the top cancer killer of women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-vinegar-cancer-india.html Cancer Sun, 02 Jun 2013 12:15:46 EST news289394135 the surgical tying or severing of fallopian tubes to prohibit pregnancy – have less frequent Pap smears, which puts them at an increased risk for cervical cancer, according to research recently released by a team that included Cara A. Mathews, MD, a gynecologic oncologist at the Program in Women's Oncology at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-connetion-tubal-ligation-cervical-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:06:35 EST news277380347 The best approach to detecting cervical cancer in HIV-positive women living in research limited countries such as those in Sub-Saharan Africa combines commonly used testing methods tailored to local levels of development and medical infrastructure, according to a study by researchers from and the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa and the University of North Carolina. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-cervical-cancer-screening-less-developed-areas.html Cancer Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:09:43 EST news277376977 The pelvic exam, a standard part of a woman's gynecologic checkup, frequently is performed for reasons that are medically unjustified, according to the authors of a UCSF study that may lay the groundwork for future changes to medical practice. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-routine-pelvic-exams.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:30:01 EST news274719902 UK health authorities have recommended women start having pap smears later in life, suggesting women wait until they are at least 25 before having their first cervical cancer screening. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-qa-cervical-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:07:29 EST news274525617 (Medical Xpress)—An alarming number of women don't understand that the common sexually transmitted infection human papillomavirus (HPV) causes cervical cancer, a Queensland University of Technology (QUT) researcher has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-pap-smears-cervical-cancer.html Cancer Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:30:08 EST news269851389 Nearly 38 percent of lesbians polled in a national survey were not routinely screened for cervical cancer, putting them at risk of developing a highly preventable cancer, according to a University of Maryland School of Medicine study being presented at the 11th Annual AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research. Cervical cancer is caused by a sexually transmitted virus, the human papillomavirus (HPV), and can be detected through regular Pap smears. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-lesbians-routinely-screened-cervical-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:00:02 EST news269704216 (Medical Xpress)—Human papillomavirus (HPV) has long been implicated in cervical cancer, but details of how it happens have remained a mystery. Now researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that a single HPV protein is required for cervical cancer and even pre-cancer growths in the cervix to survive. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-cervical-cancer-pre-cancer-growths-require.html Cancer Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:20:15 EST news267092402 Lung cancer is the most lethal cancer in the United States. According to the National Cancer Institute, lung cancer causes more than 150,000 deaths annually and has a survival rate of 16 percent. More Americans die of lung cancer each year than of cervical, breast, colon and prostate cancers combined. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-lung-cancer-screening-benefit.html Cancer Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:34:55 EST news253269286 A new study by Johns Hopkins researchers shows that obese white women may be less likely than normal-weight counterparts and African-Americans of any weight or gender to seek potentially lifesaving colon cancer screening tests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-obese-white-women-colon-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:00:02 EST news252758519 Younger girls are more likely than adult women to report side effects after receiving Gardasil, the human papillomavirus vaccine. The side effects are non-serious and similar to those associated with other vaccines, according to a new study funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and published in the Journal of Women's Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-young-girls-side-effects-hpv.html Health Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:20:01 EST news252677420 A new study finds U.S. physicians are performing Pap smears far more often than needed to prevent cervical cancer. The study, published in The Milbank Quarterly, examines Pap smear usage alongside cervical cancer mortality data in the U.S. and the Netherlands between 1970 and 2007. While American doctors performed about three or four times as many Pap smears as Dutch doctors did, the rates at which women developed or died from cervical cancer were roughly equal for the two nations. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-doctors-overuse-pap-smears.html Cancer Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:47:29 EST news251534833 Prevention is better than cure; however, when it comes to screening for cancer new research shows that U.S. health services are not as cost-effective as international, and publically run, counterparts. The research, published in The Milbank Quarterly, compares U.S. screening services to screening in the Netherlands and found that while three to four times more screening took place in the United States, the rates of mortality were similar. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-effective-cancer.html Cancer Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:06:19 EST news251456769 (PhysOrg.com) -- In a new study published in Lancet, researchers from Australia report evidence that the vaccine designed to target the human papillomavirus, or HPV, has dramatically dropped the incidence of lesions in Australian girls that lead to cervical cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-early-evidence-hpv-vaccine-impact.html Health Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:20:01 EST news227791568 Researchers from Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified unhealthy substance use as a risk factor for not receiving all appropriate preventive health services. The findings, which currently appear in BMJ Open, identify unhealthy substance use as a barrier to completion of mammography screening and influenza vaccination. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-unhealthy-substance-factor-health.html Cancer Fri, 13 May 2011 13:31:24 EST news224512266