Copyright 2013 Medical News TodayLatest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day.http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/cervical_cancer/admin@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Admin)editors@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Editors)en-us Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/260569.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/260569.phpA new Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) study has found that low-income and minority parents may be more receptive to vaccinating their daughters against Human Papillomavirus (HPV), while white, middle-class parents are more likely to defer the vaccination. The findings appear online in the May issue of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved...Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/260356.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/260356.php A new all-time low price for human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines will now help guarantee that millions of girls in poor countries are protected against cervical cancer. This will be made possible by the GAVI alliance (the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization) - a public-private partnership that aims to save children's lives by funding vaccines in the world's 70 poorest nations...Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/260228.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/260228.phpYoung women are more likely to take the HPV vaccine if they are told it protects from a nasty sexually transmitted disease, even though it also protects from potentially deadly cervical cancer, researchers from The Ohio State University and Texas Tech University discovered...Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/260001.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/260001.phpIn Kenya, women face a cervical cancer mortality rate that is approximately 10 times as high as in the United States. A study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests that training women to self-collect genital samples to test for human papillomavirus (HPV), the causative agent of cervical cancer, can increase the coverage rates of cervical cancer screening...Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/260043.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/260043.phpThe HPV vaccine can prevent both cervical cancer and a nasty sexually transmitted disease in women. But emphasizing the STD prevention will persuade more young women to get the vaccine, a new study suggests. These results go against the conventional wisdom that scaring women about the possibility of cancer is the best way to get them vaccinated...Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Fri, 03 May 2013 01:00:00 PDThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/259961.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/259961.phpOropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) is a form of cancer that affects the cells lining the middle part of the throat, including the soft palate, the base of the tongue, the tonsils, and the pharynx...Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Mon, 22 Apr 2013 02:00:00 PDThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/259430.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/259430.phpTwo large, landmark radiotherapy studies have shown that it is possible to treat cervical cancer effectively with high doses specifically adapted to each tumour, and with fewer serious side-effects to the surrounding normal organs...Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:00:00 PDThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/259407.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/259407.php Since implementing a nationwide human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program five years ago for females between the ages of 12 and 26 years, Australia has seen a significant decline in the number of cases of genital warts, according to new research in the journal BMJ...Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/259327.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/259327.phpSignificant benefit also seen in men The proportion of young women diagnosed with genital warts in Australia has seen a significant decline thanks to the HPV vaccine, suggests a paper published today on bmj.com...Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/258969.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/258969.phpNew discoveries by a team of scientists at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans for the first time reveal the inner workings of a master regulator that controls functions as diverse as the ability of nerve cells to "rewire" themselves in response to external stimuli and the mechanism by which certain viruses hijack normal cellular processes to facilitate their replication tha...Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/258967.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/258967.phpThere are over 100 different types of human papilloma virus (HPV). Cervical cancer is known to be caused by infection with approximately 14 so-called "high-risk" types of this virus. Researchers from Manchester looked at the different types of HPV found in cervical smears and invasive cervical cancers from HIV positive and HIV negative women in Kenya...Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Fri, 12 Apr 2013 01:00:00 PDThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/258945.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/258945.phpA common virus known to cause cervical and head and neck cancers may also trigger some cases of lung cancer, according to new research presented by Fox Chase Cancer Center at the AACR Annual Meeting 2013. Examining tissue samples from lung cancer patients, the researchers found that nearly 6% showed signs they may have been driven by a strain of human papillomavirus (HPV) known to cause cancer...Lung Cancer Wed, 10 Apr 2013 01:00:00 PDThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/258827.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/258827.phpResearchers have discovered a new mechanism by which the human papilloma virus (HPV) causes head and neck cancer, and they have designed a drug to block that mechanism. Though further research is needed, the new agent might offer a safer treatment for these tumors when combined with a tapered dose of standard chemotherapy...Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:00:00 PDThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/258751.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/258751.phpJAMA Internal Medicine Study Highlights A research letter by Zahava Berkowitz, M.S.P.H., M.Sc., of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and colleagues found that most of the 2,087 primary care clinicians surveyed recommended Papanicolaou (pap) tests sooner than recommended by guidelines after co-testing for the human papillomavirus (HPV)...Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Mon, 08 Apr 2013 01:00:00 PDThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/258743.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/258743.phpWomen with HIV acquire cancer-causing forms of the human papillomavirus (HPV) that are not included in the current HPV vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix, according to new research from Fox Chase Cancer Center presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2013 on Sunday, April 7...Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/258579.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/258579.phpPoly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors may be a novel treatment strategy for patients with cancer that has become resistant to the commonly used chemotherapy drug cisplatin, according to data from a preclinical study published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research...Lung Cancer Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/258345.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/258345.phpResearchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues at the University of Florida studied health care providers to determine the factors associated with disparities in Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination among girls, ages 9 to 17, from low-income families. They found that physician vaccination strategies and the type of practice play a role in whether or not girls were vaccinated...Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/258309.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/258309.phpIn women who have a potentially or mildly abnormal cervical smear, using a DNA-based test can identify those at higher risk of having precursors of cervical cancer, according to a new Cochrane systematic review. The authors found that the DNA-based test identified patients in possible need of treatment more accurately than a repeat smear test...Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/257784.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/257784.phpA rising percentage of parents say they won't have their teen daughters vaccinated to protect against the human papilloma virus, even though physicians are increasingly recommending adolescent vaccinations, a study by Mayo Clinic and others shows. More than 2 in 5 parents surveyed believe the HPV vaccine is unnecessary, and a growing number worry about potential side effects, researchers found...Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:00:00 PDThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/257805.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/257805.php Health professionals strongly recommend the vaccine for the human papilloma virus (HPV) - the virus that causes most cases of cervical cancer - for women and girls. However, many parents are worried about its safety, a new study in Pediatrics suggests. Experts say the findings are surprising and troublesome, because the vaccine is not associated with any serious negative side effects...Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/257730.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/257730.phpCompletion rates for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine series across both genders continue to remain alarmingly low nearly seven years after its introduction, suggesting that better patient education and increased public vaccine financing programs are needed, according to new research from the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)...Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/257635.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/257635.phpThe incidence of genital warts, or condylomata, declined by 93 per cent in girls given the HPV vaccine before the age of 14, according to a Swedish national registry study. The study was carried out by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, and published in Journal of the National Cancer Institute...Sexual Health / STDs Thu, 14 Mar 2013 02:00:00 PDThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/257618.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/257618.phpPatients with locally advanced cervical cancer have better treatment outcomes and are more likely to survive the disease if they receive care at a high-volume medical center than patients treated at low-volume facilities, according to research presented at the Society of Gynecologic Oncology's annual meeting on women's cancers in Los Angeles...Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/256998.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/256998.phpInspired by a chemical that fungi secrete to defend their territory, MIT chemists have synthesized and tested several dozen compounds that may hold promise as potential cancer drugs...Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 PDThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/255630.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/255630.phpA new Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) study has found that low-income and minority parents/guardians were receptive toward vaccinating boys against Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). However, racial/ethnic differences emerged in attitudes regarding school-entry mandates. The findings appear online in the journal Clinical Pediatrics...Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine