BMJ: The prophylactic human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines are remarkable both for their efficacy against HPV infection and related diseases,1 and for their potential to prevent cervical cancer. Cervical cancer, which is caused by persistent infection with oncogenic HPV types, remains a cause of premature death in women around the world, most of whom have no access to secondary prevention through organised cervical screening programmes.2 The linked study by Arnheim-Dahlström and colleagues (doi:10.1136/bmj.f5906) provides a timely and ...
Pittsburgh Business Times: African-American women are less likely to get the vaccine for human papillomavirus, which reduces the risk of cervical cancer, a new University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine found.
The findings suggest a need for health care providers to increase recommendations for HPV vaccination and address negative attitudes about the vaccine among women, according to researchers. HPV is a sexually transmitted infection that accounts for virtually all cases of cervical cancer. Roughly 12,000 cases of HPV-associated cervical cancer are ...
August 5, 2013 | By Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), from Huffington Post
Just last month we had great news for Americans. Infection with the types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that commonly cause cervical cancer in women has dropped about half in 14- to 19-year old girls since the HPV vaccination program started.
The vaccine works. It works even better than we had hoped.
The vaccine is safe. There’ve been over 57 million doses given without ...
The American Sexual Health Association (ASHA) is pleased to offer the HPV Toolkit, a resource for health care providers that gives an overview of HPV and cervical cancer screening,HPV vaccine recommendations, genital warts, and HPV-related cancers. It also offers suggested counseling messages for patients.The Toolkit is available in PDF format in both English and Spanish. Look around and learn more here!
The Women Survivors Alliance (WSA) is hosting the National Women’s Survivors Convention (NWSC) in Nashville, TN, on August 22-24. The convention’s goal is to empower, educate and connect women who’s lives have been affected by cancer.
With more than 7 million women cancer survivors in the United States, WSA seeks to help women navigate survivorship and life after cancer treatment. The convention will include variety of seminars ranging from “Fashion Tips for Survivors” to “Fear of Reoccurrence”. Additionally, there will be ...
Cervical Cancer-Free America is pleased to announce that the 2013 Collaborative Research Projects award recipients have been selected. CCFA has chosen four projects with funds ranging from $5,000-$10,000 each, all aimed at impacting cervical cancer disparities in the United States. We would like to thank everyone who submitted an application, and we offer our congratulations to the following researchers for their accepted proposals:
Dr. Jacqueline Hirth, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women’s Health University of Texas ...
By ANAHAD O’CONNOR of The New York Times
Online article found here: http://nyti.ms/11iH1B1
The American government’s goal of vaccinating young girls against the human papillomavirus has been disappointing, with less than a third of teenagers having completed a full course of HPV vaccine. But now the United States can look to Australia, which six years into a successful nationwide HPV vaccination campaign has experienced a sharp decline in the number of new cases of genital warts among young ...
“Cervical Cancer and HPV-What Sisters Need to Know”
Cervical cancer was one of the leading causes of death in our grandmothers’ time. Due to widespread screening with the pap test, death rates from cervical cancer have fallen sharply. However, our sisters are still being diagnosed with and dying from cervical cancer each year.
Did you know that African American women..
are diagnosed with cervical cancer at twice the rate of white women? have the highest cervical cancer death rate of any other group of ...
Announcement
Request for Proposal
Issue Date: January 15, 2013
PURPOSE The Cervical Cancer-Free America (CCFA) initiative, led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, seeks to competitively award funding for collaborative research projects that align with CCFA’s national cervical cancer prevention goals:
To increase vaccination, particularly among girls aged 10 to 18, against the human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes cervical cancer; To increase cervical cancer screening by cytology, especially among women who have not been screened in ...
(Reuters) – Using cervical fluid collected from routine Pap smears, U.S. researchers were able to spot genetic changes caused by both ovarian and endometrial cancers, offering promise for a new kind of screening test for these deadly cancers.
Experts say that although the test has tremendous potential, it is still years from widespread use. But if proven effective with more testing, it would fill a significant void.
Currently, there are no tests that can reliably detect either ovarian or endometrial cancer, ...