http://medicineworld.org/news/cervixnews.html MedicineWorld.Org brings daily cervical cancer news from various sources to keep you updated on the latest events in the world on this topic. Medicineworld heart watch news service is the most comprehensive heart watch news service on the internet. We keep an archive of previous few days of news on this site. Please go down through the list to find the older news items. Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:23:06 GMT en-us http://medicineworld.org/images/cervical-cancer.jpg http://medicineworld.org/news/cervixnews.html 108 87 http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/2-2010/curing-more-cervical-cancer-patients.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/2-2010/curing-more-cervical-cancer-patients.html Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:23:06 GMT Cervical cancer is highly curable when caught early. But in a third of cases, the tumor responds poorly to treatment or recurs later, when cure is much less likely. Quicker identification of non-responding tumors appears to be possible using a new mathematical model developed by scientists at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/1-2010/whos-afraid-of-the-hpv-vaccine.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/1-2010/whos-afraid-of-the-hpv-vaccine.html Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:23:06 GMT A newly released study concludes that people tend to match their risk perceptions about policy issues with their cultural values, which may explain the intense disagreement about proposals to vaccinate elementary-school girls against human-papillomavirus (HPV). The study also says people's values shape their perceptions of expert opinion on the vaccine........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/girls-aware-of-hpv-vaccines-benefits.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/girls-aware-of-hpv-vaccines-benefits.html Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:23:06 GMT Contrary to concerns that the human papillomavirus vaccine might promote promiscuity, a national survey of girls and young women observed that the majority of respondents did not believe the HPV vaccine protected them against other sexually transmitted infections. The study, conducted by University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Chicago researchers, appears online and in the recent issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health....... ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/9-2009/vaccination-could-eradicate-cervical-cancer.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/9-2009/vaccination-could-eradicate-cervical-cancer.html Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:23:06 GMT Cervical cancer could be eradicated within the next 50 years if countries implement national screening programmes based on detection of the human papilloma virus (HPV), which causes the disease, together with vaccination programmes against the virus, as per a cervical cancer screening expert. Professor Jack Cuzick told Europe's largest cancer congress, ECCO 15 ESMO 34 [1], in Berlin today (Thursday 24 September) that while the current HPV vaccines protect against two cancer-causing strains of the HPV virus, soon there would be vaccines available that protect against nine types. If vaccination were to be combined with HPV screening (which is much more sensitive than the currently used Pap smear test), then eventually the cancer would disappear in those countries that had successfully implemented national programmes. However, this would require political will and effort at both national and European level........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/8-2009/women-with-abnormal-paps.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/8-2009/women-with-abnormal-paps.html Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:23:06 GMT Less than half of Ontario women with abnormal Pap tests receive recommended and potentially life-saving follow-up care, as per a new women's health study by scientists at St. Michael's Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). What's more, low-income women are less likely to be screened for cancer in comparison to their high-income counterparts........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/1-2009/hpv18-dna-levels-are-not-prognostic.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/1-2009/hpv18-dna-levels-are-not-prognostic.html Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:23:06 GMT Perhaps surprisingly, the number of copies of the carcinogenic human papillomavirus type 18 (HPV18) relative to cellular DNA is not linked to the likelihood of progression to advanced premalignant lesions of the cervix, as per a research studyin the January 27 online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/9-2008/higher-rates-of-cervical-cancer-amongst-immigrants.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/9-2008/higher-rates-of-cervical-cancer-amongst-immigrants.html Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:23:06 GMT Gynaecological screening tests for cervical cancer have been available to all women in Sweden for almost four decades. Despite this, a number of immigrant women have a higher risk of developing the disease than Swedish-born women, as per a new study from Karolinska Institutet. This is especially the case for women from other Nordic countries and Central America, the differences being associated with, amongst other things, variation in the occurence rate of the Human Pappiloma Virus (HPV) around the world. HPV is a significant risk factor for cervical cancer........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/8-2008/cervical-cancer-prevention-vaccination.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/8-2008/cervical-cancer-prevention-vaccination.html Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:23:06 GMT The cost-effectiveness of vaccination in the United States against human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually-transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer, will be optimized by achieving universal vaccine coverage in young adolescent girls, by targeting initial "catch-up" efforts to vaccinate women younger than 21 years of age, and by revising current screening policies, as per an analysis by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) scientists in the August 21, 2008 issue of The New England Journal (NEJM)........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2007/pet-scans-for-cervical-cancer-patients.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2007/pet-scans-for-cervical-cancer-patients.html Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:23:06 GMT Whole-body PET (positron emission tomography) scans done three months after completion of cervical cancer treatment can ensure that patients are disease-free or warn that further interventions are needed, as per a research studyat Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "This is the first time we can say that we have a reliable test to follow cervical cancer patients after treatment," says Julie K. Schwarz, M.D., Ph.D., a Barnes-Jewish Hospital resident in the Department of Radiation Oncology. "We ask them to come back for a follow-up visit about three months after therapy is finished, and we perform a PET scan. If the scan shows a complete response to therapy, we can say with confidence that they are going to do extremely well. That's really powerful."....... ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2007/new-hpv-vaccine-under-study.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2007/new-hpv-vaccine-under-study.html Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:23:06 GMT A new vaccine against nine of the most harmful strains of human papillomavirus is under study at the Medical College of Georgia. The vaccine, called nine-valent, is being compared with Gardasil, a quadrivalent vaccine already on the market that works against the two most deadly HPV types. "We're testing Gardasil against three different doses of the investigational vaccine," says Dr. Daron Ferris, family medicine doctor and director of the MCG Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Center. "This study will determine the best dose of the new vaccine and whether it is safe, well-tolerated and effective in preventing HPV infection and disease compared with what's already out there"........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/10-2007/hpv-test-beats-pap-in-detecting-cervical-cancer.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/10-2007/hpv-test-beats-pap-in-detecting-cervical-cancer.html Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:23:06 GMT A new study led by McGill University scientists shows that the human papillomavirus (HPV) screening test is far more accurate than the traditional Pap test in detecting cervical cancer. The first round of the Canadian Cervical Cancer Screening Trial (CCCaST), led by Dr. Eduardo Franco, Director of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology at McGill's Faculty of Medicine, concluded that the HPV test's ability to accurately detect pre-malignant lesions without generating false negatives was 94.6%, as opposed to 55.4% for the Pap test........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/2-2007/new-test-for-most-virulent-hpv-strains.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/2-2007/new-test-for-most-virulent-hpv-strains.html Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:23:06 GMT A test for the two strains of human papillomavirus responsible for most cervical cancers is under study. The molecular assay uses a cervical scraping, like that for a liquid-based Pap smear, to test for HPV types 16 and 18, responsible for 70 percent of cervical cancers, says Dr. Daron G. Ferris, family medicine doctor and director of the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Center at the Medical College of Georgia........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/1-2007/treatment-for-cervical-dysplasia.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/1-2007/treatment-for-cervical-dysplasia.html Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:23:06 GMT Temple University Hospital's Center For Women's Health is participating in a national study to determine the safety and effectiveness of an investigational therapy for cervical dysplasia. As per the American Cancer Society, approximately 500,000 women are diagnosed with high-grade cervical dysplasia each year, with roughly 10,000 cases progressing to cervical cancer........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2006/smoking-related-cancers.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2006/smoking-related-cancers.html Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:23:06 GMT There are currently about fifty million smokers in the U.S. and there are another fifty million ex-smokers. Cigarette smoking has been linked to several human malignancies. Some of these links like the relationship between smoking and lung cancer are well established. In some other cases the relationship between smoking and cancer is not very well established. However several studies have clearly shown the malignant potential of chemical substances in cigarette smoke. This article is an attempt to summarize some of the known links between cigarette smoking and caner........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2006/hpv-test-is-a-better-long-term-predictor.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2006/hpv-test-is-a-better-long-term-predictor.html Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:23:06 GMT The best initial cervical cancer screening tool for younger women is still the traditional Pap smear. However, a large Danish study has observed that for older women (age 40 and older), a test for human papillomavirus (HPV) is a much more effective way to screen for potential cancer. The reason, report scientists in the November 1 issue of Cancer Research, is that HPV infection is both frequent and transient in younger women, and they would often test positive for HPV when no actual risk of cervical cancer existed. But, in older women, HPV infection is rarer and more persistent, putting a woman at substantial risk for the disease before changes in cervical cells, detected by Pap smears, are obvious........ ]]>