HPV and Cervical Cancer News

• HPV Positive Women Who Undergo IVF Don't Have Worse Outcomes Women with HPV can be rest assured they won't experience significantly different or worse outcomes than others undergoing IVF.
  MDedge News, November 02, 2022
• ASTRO 2022 'Eye-opening': Asking About Sexual Function After Brachytherapy Women who undergo brachytherapy for cervical cancer are hardly ever asked about their sexual function, while men who undergo treatment for prostate cancer are almost always assessed, US researchers have found.
  Medscape Medical News, October 27, 2022
• ASTRO 2022 Monitoring Daily Step Counts Predicts Hospitalization During CRT Using wearables to gather daily step counts could soon be part of patient monitoring during chemoradiotherapy in a bid to prevent hospitalizations for acute events, indicates a data analysis.
  Medscape Medical News, October 26, 2022
• Black Canadians Face Barriers to Equitable Cancer Care Better data collection, health literacy, and cultural awareness can help reduce barriers to access and promote equality in care.
  Medscape Medical News, October 26, 2022
• NAMS 2022 Poor Evidence for Vaginal Laser Therapy While laser treatment has shown some promise, researchers said the evidence is mixed and generally low quality.
  MDedge News, October 19, 2022
• New Trials in Gynecologic Cancers: Could Your Patient Benefit? Perhaps one of your patients could benefit from clinical trials of novel drugs that are currently recruiting patients with gynecologic cancers.
  Medscape Medical News, October 14, 2022
• Miami's Little Haiti Joins Global Effort to End Cervical Cancer Creole-speaking public health workers teach women how to test themselves for HPV, the virus that causes some cervical cancers.
  Kaiser Health News, October 11, 2022
• HPV Infection in Pregnancy Higher Among Women Living With HIV Pregnant women living with HIV have a higher prevalence of HPV infection than do pregnant women without HIV, researchers in Canada and Denmark report in an analysis with public health implications.
  Medscape Medical News, October 06, 2022
• Gardasil 9 HPV Vaccine Advised for MSM Living With HIV Italian researchers say the HPV vaccine is needed in young MSM with gonorrhea exposure. The WHO says only 30% of the target population worldwide has received the HPV vaccine.
  Medscape Medical News, October 03, 2022
• Is Early-Onset Cancer an Emerging Global Epidemic? A new review highlights that the incidence of early-onset cancer in various organs has been rising in many parts of the world since the 1990s and explores why.
  Medscape Medical News, September 26, 2022
• Abortion Laws Jeopardize Cancer Treatment for Pregnant Patients Oncologists are grappling with how to discuss options with pregnant patients, who may be forced to choose whether to proceed or forgo lifesaving cancer treatments that can prove toxic for the fetus.
  Kaiser Health News, September 16, 2022
• ESMO 2022 European Cancer Prevention Initiative Launched at ESMO Congress ESMO will be a key partner in the new Europe-wide Cancer Prevention Across Europe campaign (PrEvCan), which was announced at the 2022 annual conference.
  Medscape Medical News, September 10, 2022
• India Develops Its First Cervical Cancer Vaccine The Serum Institute of India, the world's biggest vaccine maker, has developed the country's first cervical cancer shot that will hit the market soon, the company and the government said.
  Reuters Health Information, September 01, 2022
• After Cancer, Abortion Experience Highlights Post-Roe Reality Pregnant women in the United States face a host of health risks, including cancer, that can put their lives and the well-being of their fetus in jeopardy in a post-Roe America.
  Medscape Medical News, August 22, 2022
• AML's Seasonal Peak Suggests Viral or Environmental Etiology The finding that most diagnoses of acute myeloid leukemia are made during January raises the possibility that the cancer results from infectious or environmental agents.
  Medscape Medical News, August 16, 2022
• Best Approach for Low-risk HPV+ Oropharynx Cancers? The question of whether primary transoral surgery or radiation is a better option for patients with low-risk HPV-related oropharyngeal cancers is still unanswered, despite new results from ORATOR2.
  MDedge News, August 12, 2022
• ACR Makes Changes to Adult, Pediatric Vaccinations Guidance The pneumococcal, recombinant zoster, and HPV vaccines are among those recommended for patients taking immunosuppressive medications.
  Medscape Medical News, August 08, 2022
• Nasal COVID Vaccines; More Female Neurosurgeons; HPV Vaccine The top 3 things you should know to start your day.
  3 Things to Know Today, July 28, 2022
• Single Dose of HPV Vaccine Is 'Game Changer,' Says WHO The World Health Organization (WHO) says that a single dose of vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV) delivers solid protection, comparable to that with two-dose schedules.
  Medscape Medical News, July 27, 2022
• Study Confirms BRCA1 and BRCA2 Linked to Seven Cancers A new analysis indicates that pathogenic variants in BRCA1 and BRCA2 have broader reach than previously thought.
  Medscape Medical News, July 12, 2022