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Cervical cancer is a malignancy of the cervix. Worldwide, it is the second most common cancer of women. It may present with vaginal bleeding but symptoms may be absent until the cancer is in advanced stages, which has made cervical cancer the focus of intense screening efforts utilizing the Pap smear. Most scientific studies have found that human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is responsible for >90% of the cases of cervical cancer. There are 7 most common types of HPV - 16, 18, 31, 33, ...
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Resources
- Abnormal Pap Test Results (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists)
- ACOG's Physician Directory (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists)
Cervical Cancer News Headlines
- Study Tracks Rate of Cervical Cancer Virus
New York Times - Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:13 EST
- Vaccinating Against Cervical Cancer
MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 11 Feb 2007 03:00 EST
- Merck calls of lobbying for making cervical cancer vaccination mandatory
The Earth Times - Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:31 EST
- Temple University Hospital Investigates Treatment For Cervical Dysplasia - A Potential Advance In Preventing Cervical Cancer
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
- Should You Be Tested For Lung Cancer? From The 'Harvard Women's Health Watch'
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
- New Test For Most Virulent HPV Strains Under Study
MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 24 Feb 2007 07:00 EST
- Virginia to require vaccine for girls
MSNBC - Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:55 EST
- Hospital Investigates New Prophylactic HPV Vaccine
ScienceDaily - Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:00 EST
- 1 in 4 U.S. women have HPV
MSNBC - Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:03 EST
- Attitudes And Beliefs About HPV Explored By Study
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:00 EST
- Kaine Says He'll Sign Bill Making Shots Mandatory
Washington Post - Sat, 03 Mar 2007 05:00 EST
- Va. Gov. Will Sign HPV-Vaccine Legislation
Washington Post - Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:40 EST
- Going 'Back To The Future' In Colon Cancer Screening
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:00 EST
- HPV infections seen in over quarter of U.S. women
Reuters - Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:32 EST
- HPV infections seen in over quarter of U.S. women
Reuters - Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:32 EST
- Actions Taken On HPV Vaccine Proposals In Kentucky, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Ohio, South Dakota, Virginia
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 02:00 EST
- More American Women Have HPV Than Previously Thought
Washington Post - Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:08 EST
- Texas mandates cervical cancer vaccine for girls
Reuters - Sat, 03 Feb 2007 12:26 EST
- Disparities remain as cervical cancer rates fall
MSNBC - Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:46 EST
- CDC survey estimates say over 24 million US women have HPV infection
The Earth Times - Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:31 EST
- Cervical cancer drops, but disparities persist
Reuters - Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:44 EST
- Translaminar approach effective, safer
The Earth Times - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:50 EST
- Colon Cancer Screening: Going 'Back To The Future'?
ScienceDaily - Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:00 EST
- UK Doctors Alarmed At Decline In Cervical Smear Tests
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:00 EST
- Gay Men In The UK Asking For HPV Vaccine
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:00 EST
- States Making Gains In Cervical Cancer Prevention Efforts, Report Says
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:00 EST
- No extra warning labels for STD shots
MSNBC - Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:33 EST
- About 26% Of U.S. Girls, Women Ages 14 To 59 Have HPV, About 2% Have Strains 16 Or 18, Study Says
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:00 EST
- Drugmaker stops lobbying efforts for STD shots
MSNBC - Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:52 EST
- Lung Cancer Alliance Commends Research On Non-Smoking Lung Cancer Cases
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
- Merck ending lobbying for mandatory Gardasil vaccine
Reuters - Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:57 EST
- Merck ending lobbying for mandatory Gardasil vaccine
Reuters - Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:57 EST
- Actions Taken On HPV Vaccine Proposals In Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:00 EST
- Cervical Screening System Hit By Security Concerns In Scotland
MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 03 Feb 2007 10:00 EST
- Furor on Rush to Require Cervical Cancer Vaccine
New York Times - Sat, 17 Feb 2007 04:04 EST
- 15 Common Myths About Cervical Cancer
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:00 EST
- Study: 1 in 4 U.S. women has cervical cancer virus
CNN - Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:57 EST
- US Parents And Doctors Concerned About The Haste To Vaccinate Pre-teen Girls Against Cervical Cancer
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:00 EST
- Lung Cancer Alliance Maintains Strong Support For Early Detection For Lung Cancer
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
- Virginia to Require Vaccine for Girls
Washington Post - Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:24 EST
- Risks of aspirin outweigh cancer benefit for most
Reuters - Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:06 EST
- Colon Cancer Risk: It's Often All In The Family
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
- Childhood cancer survivors at risk of 2nd cancer
Reuters - Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:06 EST
- Life-Saving Cancer Genetic Testing Vastly Underutilized
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
- Cancer Research And Prevention Foundation Educates And Celebrates With National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month(TM)
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
- Breast Cancer Survivors Experience Long-term Heart Disease Risk From Radiotherapy
ScienceDaily - Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
- Radiation for breast cancer ups heart disease risk
Reuters - Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:09 EST
- Immunotherapy Does Not Prolong Life When Skin Cancer Spreads
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
- Risks of aspirin outweigh cancer benefit for most
Reuters - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:00 EST
- "False-Positive" Prostate Cancer Screenings Assessed
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
- Depression In Moms With Breast Cancer May Exacerbate Related Anxieties In Their Children
ScienceDaily - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
- New Cervical Cancer Vaccine Guidelines
WebMD - Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:43 EST
- Mayo Clinic Cancer Center -- Investigating The Measles Virus As A Tool To Kill Multiple Myeloma
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
- Breast cancer 'hits poor hardest'
BBC - Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:15 EST
- Women from poor backgrounds have lower breast cancer survival rate
The Earth Times - Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:32 EST
- Study Shows No Reduction In Lung Cancer Deaths After CT Screening - Death Rates For Smokers Are Not Improved Despite Early Diagnosis
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:00 EST
- Breast Cancer Cells May Be Killed By Common Cold Virus
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
- Inhibitory Effect Of Snake Venom Toxin From On Hormone-Refractory Human Prostate Cancer Cell Growth
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
- Lung Cancer Risk Reduced In Female Textile Workers Exposed To Endotoxin
ScienceDaily - Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
- Reactions To 'False-positive' Prostate Cancer Screenings Assessed
ScienceDaily - Sat, 03 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
- Don't Use Aspirin To Prevent Colon Cancer Says Task Force
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:00 EST
- CT scans don't reduce lung-cancer deaths
The Earth Times - Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:31 EST
- Moms with cancer, depression impact kids
The Earth Times - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:24 EST
- New York Times Examines Future Use Of Pap Test For Cervical Cancer Prevention As HPV Tests, Vaccine Become More Widespread
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:00 EST
- Breast Cancer Research Increasingly Influenced By Drug Industry
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:00 EST
- A Healthy Colon: Tips To Lower Risk Of Colorectal Cancer
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
- High-Dose Calcitriol Plus Docetaxel Compared With Placebo Plus Docetaxel In Androgen-Independent Prostate Cancer
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
- Creating New Life Forms That May Help Eradicate Cancer Affecting Women
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:00 EST
- Panel Nixes Aspirin As Cancer Preventive
ABC News - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:02 EST
- Healthy Choices Make For A Healthy Colon
MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 04 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
- Trial Investigating A Promising New Treatment For Head And Neck Cancer Has Begun
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:00 EST
- National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
- Actions Taken On HPV Vaccine Legislation In Maine, Maryland, Minnesota
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
- Aspirin of no use in reducing risk of colon cancer: Panel
The Earth Times - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:57 EST
- Lung Cancer CT Scans No Help?
WebMD - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:00 EST
- CT scans don't prevent lung cancer deaths
MSNBC - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:10 EST
- No new warnings planned for cervical cancer vaccine
CNN - Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:21 EST
- Drugmaker Assists In Pushing for Mandate For HPV Vaccination
Washington Post - Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:00 EST
- Home test kits to screen for bowel cancer could save lives
The Earth Times - Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:36 EST
- Experts: Don't take aspirin to curb colon cancer
MSNBC - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:01 EST
- Want A Healthy Colon? Eat A Rainbow!
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 02 Mar 2007 06:00 EST
- Pap Test, a Mainstay Against Cervical Cancer, May Be Fading
New York Times - Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:12 EST
- National Cancer Institute Hosts Meeting on Preoperative Therapy in Invasive Breast Cancer - March - 01, 2007
National Institutes of Health - Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:56 EST
- Avoiding the Smear Test has led to an Increased Risk of Cervical Cancer
The Earth Times - Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:19 EST
- 12 Myths About Colon Cancer
MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
- Investigating The Measles Virus As A Tool To Kill Multiple Myeloma
ScienceDaily - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
- Genetic Analysis Enables Personalizing Of Treatment Of Cancer
ScienceDaily - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
- New Pharmaceutical Drug That Halts Progress Of Metastatic Kidney Cancer
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:00 EST
- Gene Test Helps To Diagnose Lung Cancer Early
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
- Oral Cancer Drug Xeloda Receives Positive Opinion From The European Authorities For The Treatment Of Advanced Gastric Cancer
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
- Intimacy And Sex: The Unspoken Casualties Of Cancer
ScienceDaily - Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:00 EST
- Toward Genetically Guided Cancer Treatment: Gene Expression Test Reveals Critical ...
ScienceDaily - Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
- Leukemia Drug Turns Mini-molecules Up, Cancer Genes Down
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:00 EST
- Test IDs Early Lung Cancer in Smokers
WebMD - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:00 EST
- Genes Discovered That Can Slow Cell Division And May Fight Cancer
MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:00 EST
- Vaccination Programmes With Gardasil® Could Cost-effectively Prevent Up To 91% Of Vaccine Virus Type Related Cervical Cancer
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 22 Jan 2007 03:00 EST
- Colour Sensor Breath Test Can Detect Lung Cancer
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:00 EST
- Leukemia Drug Turns Mini-molecules Up, Cancer Genes Down
ScienceDaily - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:00 EST
- Link Between Rheumatoid Arthritis And Cancer
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:00 EST
- Hand-Assisted Technique May Decrease Time In Surgery For Colorectal Cancer Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Surgery
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
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