Cervical Cancer News
December 22, 2024
Top Headlines
Dec. 13, 2024 — Analyses of self-tests for human papillomavirus (HPV) can be used to divide HPV-positive women into three risk groups, according to a new study. This method could be important for enhancing cervical cancer ...
Dec. 10, 2024 — Research shows that HPV accounts for 70% of all throat cancers, but only one-third of the public is aware that HPV causes throat ...
Dec. 5, 2024 — Improvements in cancer prevention and screening have averted more deaths from five cancer types combined over the past 45 years than treatment advances, according to a modeling study. The study ...
Nov. 27, 2024 — Researchers found a reduction in cervical cancer mortality in women under the age of 25, which is likely due to the introduction of the HPV ...
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Oct. 9, 2024 — A new study has found some cancers to be slightly more frequent in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) than in people without MS. Types of cancers found to have a small increased risk include ...
Aug. 14, 2024 — A vaccine against cancer-causing human papillomaviruses (HPV) is intended to help increase the rate of HPV vaccinations, particularly in developing ...
July 11, 2024 — A new study finds four in 10 cancer cases and about one-half of all cancer deaths in adults 30 years old and older in the United States (or 713,340 ...
July 2, 2024 — In 2019, more than 12,000 new cases of cervical cancer were diagnosed and upwards of 4,000 patients died in the U.S. The causal link between human ...
June 4, 2024 — Researchers have developed a simpler and more effective screening method for cervical cancer than the method used today. A comprehensive study shows that the test detects significantly more cancers ...
May 30, 2024 — A new study demonstrates that when individuals with obstructive sleep apnea use their positive airway pressure machine more regularly, it benefits their relationship with their ...
Apr. 11, 2024 — Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the second most common cancer-causing virus, accounting for 690,000 cervical and other cancers each year worldwide. While the immune system usually clears HPV ...
Jan. 18, 2024 — Cancer resists treatment in a multitude of ways, but a new algorithm developed can decode them all ...
Nov. 8, 2023 — The most effective way to prevent cervical cancer is to give HPV vaccines to both boys and girls, reports a collaborative study. Beside personal immunity, such use of the vaccine also induces a herd ...
Oct. 24, 2023 — A course of treatment with existing drugs prior to chemo-radiation led to a 35% reduction in the risk of death or return of ...
Earlier Headlines
Nov. 28, 2022 — Researchers found that across the U.S., anal cancer incidence and mortality rates increased 1.5-fold in men and women over 50 years old. However, the most prominent increase -- more than two-fold -- ...
Nov. 7, 2022 — Investigators analyzed longitudinal samples of cervical and serum biomarker levels for immune activation, before and after subjects acquired HSV-2. They found that altered levels of specific ...
Oct. 20, 2022 — A major clinical trial looking at surgery for women at risk of miscarriage and stillbirth have found that a type of wire commonly used reduces risk of ...
July 14, 2022 — Researchers have shown that treating precancerous anal growths called high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSILs) in persons living with HIV significantly decreased the progression to anal ...
June 7, 2022 — The most effective intervention to prevent preterm birth is the administration of a natural hormone, progesterone, in patients at risk for premature delivery. Two categories of patients have been ...
June 3, 2022 — New findings show the number of women in the United States who reported having a recent (in the past year) breast cancer or cervical cancer screening dropped by 2.13 million (6%) and 4.47 million ...
May 13, 2022 — Life-like organ replicas -- so-called 3D organoids -- are a good way to research disease processes. A team has now presented a kind of blueprint for such a model of the ...
Mar. 31, 2022 — A new study uses next-generation gene sequencing to get a clearer read on the community of viruses present in vaginal microbiome samples and its implication for the development of cervical ...
Mar. 16, 2022 — Biological processes such as wound healing and cancer cell invasion rely on the collective and coordinated motion of living cells. A little understood aspect that influences these processes is the ...
Feb. 24, 2022 — Infections with several pathogens simultaneously increase the risk of cervical cancer, according to a new study conducted on artificial 3D tissue ...
Jan. 12, 2022 — Understanding how cells die is key to developing new treatments for many diseases, whether the goal is to make cancer cells die or keep healthy cells alive in the face of other illnesses, such as ...