cervical cancer
Study: Doctors May Be Confused About Cervical Cancer Screening
The U.S. has arguably the world’s best medical tools available — especially when it comes to cancer screening, which has significantly reduced the mortality rates of serious killers such as breast and colorectal cancer in the …
Gardasil Protects Boys and Men From HPV Too
A new trial finds that the Gardasil vaccine protects men against human papillomavirus (HPV) as effectively as it does women. The question is: is widespread vaccination necessary?
Are doctors screening for cervical cancer too often?
Though current cervical cancer screening guidelines generally recommend that women ages 30 and older get screened — either using a traditional pap smear or a complement of a pap smear and human papillomavirus testing — every 2 to 3 years instead of annually, a new survey published this week in the Archives of Internal Medicine finds
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CDC confirms effectiveness of HPV vaccine in men
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed its provisional recommendation from 2009 that the HPV vaccine (Gardasil) against human papillomavirus infection is both safe and effective in males in preventing genital warts.
The HPV vaccine was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2006 for use in …
HPV test better than pap smears for cervical screening
Two studies out this week indicate that human papillomavirus (HPV) screening may be a more effective way than conventional pap smears to identify pre-cancerous cells, enabling women to intercept cervical dysplasia before it potentially develops into cancer.
Beginning sex younger increases cervical cancer risk
Girls who begin having sexual intercourse at a younger age may have a significantly higher risk for developing cervical cancer, according to a new study published in the British Journal of Cancer. As the BBC reports, in a study of some 20,000 women, investigators from the International Agency for Research on Cancer found that those who
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Mulling the value of the HPV vaccine for boys
The debate about the safety and social implications of the Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for young girls continues—and reached a frenzied pitch with the death of a British teen hours after getting the cervical cancer vaccine, despite initial evidence that her demise was the result of a “serious underlying medical condition.”
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