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SHE has suffered three different cancers by the age of 23 - but Janine Long says she feels like the luckiest woman alive.

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AN Exeter school is set to become one of the first in Devon to take part in the new immunisation programme against cervical cancer.

Main Category: Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Article Date: 28 Sep 2008 - 0:00 PDT The two HPV vaccines currently licensed for use in the UK were jointly awarded the coveted Prix Galien Medal for Innovation at a ...

A detailed analysis of the incidence of these four different kinds of cancer, carried out on more than 300,000 English cancer patients describes the effects of socioeconomic group, region and age.

The Calgary Catholic School District did not weigh the pros against the cons in deciding against vaccinating girls to prevent cervical cancer, says one outraged Catholic woman who is a survivor of the disease.

Cervical cancer is the second deadliest cancer in women: it strikes 500,000 every year, and more than half die.

Overseas and local doctors promoted the use of vaccines in combination with a Pap smear as the most effective way to protect women against cervical cancer, a disease that take the lives of roughly 650 women ...

JADE Goody leaves hospital yesterday - to face the anguish of telling her sons she has cancer.

Alberta's Health Minister said Friday Catholic leaders in Calgary have placed young girls at risk by refusing to participate in a vaccination program to prevent cervical cancer.

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Democratic Senate candidate Bruce Lunsford said yesterday he would support pay equity and seek to expand access to health care in a pitch to woo women voters, accusing his four-term opponent ...

The purpose of this research was to evaluate the feasibility and toxicity of Positron emission tomography Image-Guided irradiation of FDG-PET positive pelvic and para-aortic lymph nodes to 60 Gy in patients ...

The horrors of cervical cancer -- and the invasive and painful treatment for it and other conditions caused by various types of the human papillomavirus or HPV -- demand that women of all ages be vaccinated ...

Residents of a poor rural town in the Philippines are getting their health care needs met by physicians and nurses who live thousands of miles away.

Uptake of the controversial MMR jab has failed to rise despite warnings from health experts, new figures show.

In an analysis based on a computer model, it appears that comparing the benefits and risks of different cervical cancer prevention approaches may help women and their physicians choose appropriate screening ...