US health panel adds self-testing option for cervical cancer screening
Women should have the option of taking their own test samples for cervical cancer screening, an influential health panel said Tuesday.
Dec 10, 2024
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Study reveals racial and socioeconomic disparities in lung cancer testing
A new Mount Sinai study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute on September 10, 2024, has found that people with lung cancer face big differences in getting important tests based on their race and income. ...
Sep 19, 2024
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HPV testing for cervical cancer may be safe at longer intervals than what current guidelines recommend
Over the past two decades, the United States has been transitioning from cytology to HPV-based screening for cervical cancer. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force currently recommends one of three options for routine cervical ...
May 22, 2024
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Making transfusion-transmitted malaria in Europe a thing of the past
The current strategy used in Europe to mitigate malaria transfusion risk is efficient with just 10 reported cases over the 20 past years. However, current serological tests used to identify "at risk" donors are not sensitive ...
Apr 26, 2024
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Clinicians' attitudes towards major changes from the 2020 ACS Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines
Nearly all cervical cancers are caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). New evidence has led to dramatic changes in cervical cancer screening recommendations over the past 20 years.
Mar 5, 2024
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New evidence on cervical cancer screening and treatment for women living with HIV
Following the announcement of the WHO call to eliminate cervical cancer as a public health problem in 2020, there has been encouraging global progress in implementing and expanding Human papillomavirus (HPV) immunization, ...
Dec 14, 2023
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International consensus highlights the importance of molecular testing for antibiotic resistance in tuberculosis
A multidisciplinary group of tuberculosis experts from the TBnet and RESIST-TB networks have reached a consensus on key issues related to the molecular prediction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antibiotic sensitivity or resistance ...
Apr 14, 2023
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Preventing cervical cancer
Silent but deadly. These are words often used to describe cervical cancer—a slow-growing disease that rarely causes symptoms in its early stages.
Jan 5, 2023
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Miami's Little Haiti joins global effort to end cervical cancer
More than 300,000 women around the world die from cervical cancer each year. In the U.S., women of Haitian descent are diagnosed with it at higher rates than the general population.
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