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News: February 14, 2012
Too Few Americans Getting Screened for Common Cancers: CDC
THURSDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) -- The number of Americans being screened for colon, breast and cervical cancers still fall below national targets, federal health officials said Thursday. In 2010, 72.4 percent of women were being screened for b...
More Evidence That HPV Vaccine Shields Against Cervical Cancer
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 9 (HealthDay News) -- A new study suggests that the Cervarix cervical cancer vaccine may provide "excellent" protection against a precancerous lesion that is often a forerunner to invasive cervical cancer. Cervarix, made by GlaxoSm...
Home-Based Test Can Detect Cervical Cancer Virus: Study
THURSDAY, Nov. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Home-based tests using self-collected vaginal samples could serve as an alternative to the traditional Pap smear tests designed to detect the virus that causes cervical cancer, new study findings show. While la...
U.S. Cancer Groups Release Their Own Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Three leading U.S. cancer groups have proposed new guidelines for cervical cancer testing for women, including when to start screening for sexually active young women, extending intervals between screenings a...
Pap Test Still Best for Cervical Cancer Screening, Experts Say
MONDAY, Oct. 17 (HealthDay News) --Human papillomavirus (HPV) testing isn't likely to replace conventional Pap tests as a cervical cancer screening tool among women older than 30, a new report suggests. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force publ...
Breast Cancer Rates Jump Worldwide, Study Finds
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 14 (HealthDay News) -- The number of new cases of breast cancer has jumped dramatically worldwide, from about 640,000 in 1980 to more than 1.6 million in 2010, University of Washington researchers report. Over the same period, the...
HPV Test Might Be Better Predictor of Cervical Cancer Than Pap Smear
TUESDAY, Aug. 23 (HealthDay News) -- A test that detects the two strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) that are most likely to raise the risk of invasive cervical cancer, when combined with the Pap test, may be more accurate for many women than th...
HPV Vaccine May Cut Rate of Cervical Cancer 'Precursors'
THURSDAY, June 16 (HealthDay News) -- The introduction of a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program in Australia led to a reduction in high-grade cervical abnormalities that are precursors to cervical cancer, a new study reports. The resear...
Many Women Can Have Cervical Cancer Test Every 3 Years: Study
WEDNESDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) -- Women 30 and older who have good results from each of the two cervical cancer tests available today can safely wait three years for their next screening instead of just one year, according to new research. The...
MRIs Can Tell Endometrial, Cervical Cancer Apart: Study
TUESDAY, May 3 (HealthDay News) -- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can distinguish between endometrial and cervical cancer in most cases where a biopsy fails to do so, a new study says. It found that radiologists using MRI were able to correctly ...
After Treatment for Precancerous Cervical Lesions, Risk Drops to Normal for Some
THURSDAY, April 28 (HealthDay News) -- Women who have been treated for precancerous cervical lesions should see their cancer risk drop to normal after three "all clear" screening test results, Dutch researchers say. These women can then resume scr...
Few Young Women Getting Cervical Cancer Vaccine
TUESDAY, Nov. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Few teenage girls and young women are getting the human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV), and many of those who start the regimen fail to take all three doses, new research reveals. Although studies have shown that ...
HPV Test Beats Pap Smear for Cancer Screening
WEDNESDAY, April 28 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors can detect more serious precancerous lesions in the cervix by testing for human papillomavirus (HPV) than through conventional cervical screening with a Pap smear, a new study suggests. HPV, a common...
Should HPV Test Replace the Pap Smear?
TUESDAY, Jan. 19 (HealthDay News) -- DNA testing for the human papillomavirus should replace the Pap smear as the main way to screen women for cervical cancer, according to Italian researchers. Their recommendation is based on a study that found t...
New Pap Test Guidelines: Start Later, Have Fewer
FRIDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) -- For the second time in a week, medical experts are revising the advice given women on cancer screenings. Now women are being told that they should get their first screening for cervical cancer -- including a Pap...
Breast Cancer Drugs May Fight Cervical Cancer, Too
MONDAY, Nov. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Two drugs used to treat breast cancer and osteoporosis eliminated cervical cancer in mice, according to a new study. The drugs also cleared precancerous growths in the cervix and vagina, and prevented the onset o...
Old, New Pap Methods Equally Good, Dutch Study Finds
TUESDAY, Oct. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Traditional Pap tests and the newer liquid-based cytology are equally reliable in screening for cervical cancer, a new study has found. In the United States, liquid-based cytology testing has all but replaced t...
Cervarix Approved to Help Prevent Cervical Cancer
FRIDAY, Oct. 16 (HealthDay News) -- GlaxoSmithKline's Cervarix vaccine has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to prevent the leading cause of cervical cancer, the Associated Press reported Friday. The British drug maker said it...
Researchers Propose Improved Cervical Cancer Screening
MONDAY, Sept. 21 (HealthDay News) -- A new tool to determine a woman's risk of developing cervical cancer is being developed by researchers at the U.S. National Cancer Institute. Their proposal appears as a Keynote Comment article in the Sept. 20 ...
FDA Panel Backs Giving HPV Vaccine Gardasil to Young Males
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. drug advisors recommended Wednesday that use of the vaccine Gardasil, already administered to help prevent cervical cancer in women, be expanded to help prevent genital warts in young males. A U.S. Food ...
Cervical Cancer Vaccine Seems Safe
TUESDAY, Aug. 18 (HealthDay News) -- The vaccine that protects against human papillomavirus (HPV), a cause of cervical cancer, appears safe, with relatively few serious side effects, according to a new U.S. government study. The study, which inclu...
New Evidence Supports HPV Vaccine
MONDAY, July 6 (HealthDay News) -- The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is highly effective at preventing precancerous cervical lesions that can lead to cervical cancer, a new study shows. The researchers also found that the HPV-16/18 AS04-adjuv...
Cervical Cancer Vaccine Not Just for Teens
TUESDAY, June 2 (HealthDay News) -- The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine works for women aged 24 to 45 who aren't already infected by HPV, the virus that has been linked to cervical cancer and other cervical diseases. That's the finding from Dr....
New Technique May Improve Early Cervical Cancer Treatment
MONDAY, June 1 (HealthDay News) -- A new approach to performing radical hysterectomy in early-stage cervical cancer patients reduces the risk of complications, death and local tumor recurrence, a German study shows. The technique, called total mes...
Broad-Spectrum Cervical Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise
TUESDAY, May 26 (HealthDay News) -- An investigational broad-spectrum cervical cancer vaccine induced strong immune responses in mice and rabbits, and protected them against human papillomavirus (HPV) type 16 for four months, new research has foun...
Don't Lower Age for Cervical Cancer Test, Study Urges
THURSDAY, April 23 (HealthDay News) -- Cervical cancer screening should continue for women older than 50 -- even if they've had several negative test results -- because they have a similar level of risk as younger women, European researchers conte...
HPV Data May Aid Vaccine's Effectiveness
TUESDAY, March 24 (HealthDay News) -- The majority of invasive cervical cancers in New Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s contained DNA from human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) and HPV type 18 (HPV18), says a new study. It also found that women diagno...
Get to Know the Pap Test
SUNDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Since it was introduced to American women in the 1950s, the Pap test has been credited with drastically reducing the number of lives lost to cervical cancer. Pap tests can detects abnormalities in the cervix befo...
Multiple Screening Strategy Boosts Cervical Cancer Detection
TUESDAY, Jan. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Two extra steps may improve the accuracy of cervical cancer screening, a new study claims. A Pap smear is the standard test, but findings in the Jan. 13 online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Instit...
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