| Cervical Cancer - New device traps and analyzes single cells for faster HPV-related cervical cancer screening |
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August 6, 2019 |
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The latest cervical cancer news from News Medical |
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 | | |  Health care professionals are unclear about cervical screening and HPV, study finds New research led by Keele University into awareness about human papillomavirus (HPV), the main cause of cervical cancer, has found that health care professionals across the UK are not as well informed as they should be. This week is Cervical Screening Awareness Week which aims to raise awareness about cervical screening and HPV to the general public. | |
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| | | | |  In wealthy countries that have vaccination programs, the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine has significantly reduced the rate of HPV-related infections. Researchers at the Université Laval in Quebec who looked at 66 million young men and women found that the problems caused by the virus have significantly decreased across a number of wealthy countries. | | | | |  Psychological stress was associated with a higher risk of cancer-specific mortality in women diagnosed with cervical cancer. Journal in Which the Study was Published: Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research | | | | |  A new International Journal of Cancer study indicates that rates of invasive cervical cancer (ICC) are particularly high in women living with HIV in South Africa or Latin America. For the study, researchers compared ICC rates in 45 countries across Europe, South Africa, Latin, and North America among women living with HIV who initiated antiretroviral therapy between 1996 and 2014, through a collaboration between global HIV cohort research networks | | | | |  A new study in JNCI Cancer Spectrum finds that dramatic increases in cancer survival in adolescents and young adults are undermined by continuing disparities by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. | |
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