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Cervical Cancer Prevention Should Focus On Vaccinating Adolescent Girls
The cost-effectiveness of vaccination in the United States against human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually-transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer, will be optimized by achieving universal vaccine coverage in young adolescent girls, by targeting initial “catch-up” efforts to vaccinate women younger than 21 years of age, and by revising current screening policies, according to an analysis […]
Could a Blood Transfusion be a Cure for Cancer ?
Could common white blood cells fight some of the most aggressive cancers? Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center plan a human trial to find out.
They will take white blood cells called granulocytes from people whose granulocytes have shown a strong ability to fight cancer and transfuse those cells into cancer patients.
Such transfusions have […]
New Investment for Vaccine Research and Development
An international partnership that funds vaccines for children in poor countries will decide whether to also start investing in vaccinations to protect adult women.
The board of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI), which is backed by the Gates Foundation, is meeting in Geneva on a proposed $3.5 billion vaccine investment strategy specifying diseases […]
Cervical Cancer a Silent Killer
Till two years back, Sharada Devi’s world revolved around her four children and husband. It was a mundane existence, but Sharada Devi was happy. When she started bleeding in between her menstrual periods, she did not panic.
As the bleeding continued, the local doctor asked her to go to Delhi for treatment. She was clueless […]
NCI Grant Launches Clinical Trials For Colon Cancer Screening
A Northwestern University biomedical engineer who has developed optical technology shown to be effective for the early detection of colon cancer has received a $7.5 million grant over five years from the National Cancer Institute to further study an instrument that potentially could become a routine colon cancer screening test and to launch large-scale clinical […]
Merck’s Not Approve Application Cervical Cancer Vaccine to Expand Marketing
U.S. regulators have told Merck & Co they cannot yet approve Merck’s application to expand marketing of its cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil to an older group of women, the drugmaker said on Wednesday.
Merck had applied for the use of Gardasil in women ages 27 through 45. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in […]
State Receives Grants For Breast Cancer Screening For The Uninsured
The Tennessee Department of Health’s Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program has been awarded five one-year grants totaling $206,950 from Tennessee affiliates of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, an international organization dedicated to ending breast cancer.
Grants have been awarded in Davidson County, Knoxville, Chattanooga, the Tri-Cities area and Tennessee’s Upper Cumberland region to provide […]
Researchers Blame HPV For Rise In Throat Cancer
For five grueling months in 2006 and 2007, Carol Kanga suffered through treatment for a life-threatening case of throat cancer linked to an unlikely source: a sexually transmitted viral infection.
Unable to swallow food or water during chemotherapy and radiation treatment, Kanga was fed through a stomach tube. Her one respite came on Thanksgiving, when she […]
Researchers Report That Better Screening, Treatment, And Affordable Vaccines Can Prevent Doubling Of Cervical Cancer Deaths In Latin America
Thirty-three thousand women in Latin America and the Caribbean die each year of preventable cervical cancer, caused by a virus that infects 20 percent of men and women in the region and as many as 30 percent of the youngest women, according to a new study. Dramatic new opportunities offered by better screening, treatment and […]