While the mortality rate for cervical cancer has declined dramatically since the 1970s, more than 400 Canadian women succumbed to the disease in 2019. A new paper, published in the International Journal of Cancer, by researchers ...
Feb 14, 2020
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Young sexual minority men—including those who are gay, bisexual, queer or straight-identified men who have sex with men—do not fully understand their risk for human papillomavirus (HPV) due to a lack of information from ...
Feb 11, 2020
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Cervical cancer is one of the only cancers that can be prevented by a vaccine. This is because around 98% of all cervical cancer cases are caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV), which implants DNA in the genome of human ...
Feb 10, 2020
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New research indicates that a single dose of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is as effective as multiple doses for preventing preinvasive cervical disease, which can later develop into cervical cancer. The findings ...
Feb 10, 2020
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An experimental blood test accurately detected HPV-linked head and neck cancer recurrence and confirmed when patients remained cancer-free, according to findings from a study led by University of North Carolina Lineberger ...
Feb 6, 2020
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Malaria infection during pregnancy represents a major public health problem in the regions endemic for the disease, substantially increasing the risks to mothers and their unborn children. A new vaccine known as PRIMVAC has ...
Feb 5, 2020
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Women who have sex with women (WSW), transsexual men and non-binary people with a cervix are at similar risk of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and subsequent risk of developing cervical cancers as heterosexual women, ...
Feb 4, 2020
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"It happens when you least expect it. ... It was my last semester before it was time for me to graduate. That's when I found out."
Jan 24, 2020
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Cervical cancer rates in Britain halved between the late 1980s and mid-2000s but progress has since been "stalling and stagnating," according to Cancer Research UK figures published today during cervical cancer prevention ...
Jan 23, 2020
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A new analysis of the clinical trials of HPV vaccines to prevent cervical cancer raises doubts about the vaccines' effectiveness. The analysis, published by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, assessed 12 published ...
Jan 22, 2020
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