Palaia et al report a case of a patient with locally advanced cervical carcinoma without lymph node metastasis treated by neoadjuvant chemotherapy during pregnancy followed by cesarean section and radical surgery.

A woman’s daily stress can reduce her ability to fight off a common sexually transmitted disease and increase her risk of developing the cancer it can cause,…

The last 50 years have witnessed a dramatic decline in the number of cervical cancer cases, according to the National Cancer Institute. This trend can be primarily attributed to the…

A new study has estimated the costs of providing comprehensive screening and diagnostic services to under-or uninsured, low-income women to identify those with breast or…

According to a report issued last week by UNAIDS, access to antiretroviral therapy is beginning to reduce AIDS mortality worldwide. But Dr. Groesbeck Parham, gynecologic oncologist and Director of the…

Whole-body PET (positron emission tomography) scans done three months after completion of cervical cancer therapy can ensure that patients are disease-free or warn that further interventions are needed, according…

Women who take oral contraceptives run a higher risk of developing cervical cancer, but this risk is transient and reverts to normal about 10 years after they stop,…

Women who survive cervical cancer are at increased risk for developing other cancers decades later, according to a report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The increased cancer…

In the largest and most rigorous study to date investigating how cancer influences divorce, Norwegian researchers have found that marriages are no more likely than…

The decline in cervical cancer is a success story of cancer research. Although there are reasons to be optimistic about even further decreases in cervical cancer incidence, there still…

In some ways, certain tumors resemble bee colonies, says pathologist Tan Ince. Each cancer cell in the tumor plays a specific role, and just a fraction of…

A new computerised screening test for cervical cancer detects more abnormalities than the traditional smear test, according to a study published on bmj.com today.

It could…

A method of screening women in Ghana for early signs of cervical cancer and providing preventive treatment at the same visit appears to be safe, acceptable to women and…

Merck & Co. Thursday said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has adopted the recommendation of an advisory panel that the drugmaker’s vaccine against cervical cancer routinely…

In the United States, rates of invasive cervical cancer declined between 1998 and 2002, although significant racial, ethnic, and geographic differences persisted, according to pre-vaccine surveillance data covering 87 percent the…

Three-quarters of mothers in Britain want their young daughters to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus that causes most cases of cervical cancer, a poll released on Wednesday…

About 9,700 women in the United States will be diagnosed with cervical cancer this year. It may seem like a small number, until you consider that another 1.2 million women will…

Cigarette smoking significantly increases the risk of cervical cancer associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) type 16, according to a report in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

Numerous reports have…

Cigarette smoking and concurrent infection with high levels of the virus associated with cervical cancer can increase cancer risk by as much as 27 times, according to a…

Merck & Co Inc’s Gardasil, the first vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, was launched in Britain and Ireland on Tuesday in the latest phase of an unusually rapid…

Health experts in the UK are considering vaccinating young girls of primary school age against the human papilloma virus.

The virus is spread by sexual activity and is known…

A commonly used HIV medicine may also help prevent cervical cancer and could be developed into an anti-cancer cream, early laboratory tests by British scientists suggest.

Researchers at the…

A new vaccine which will protect women against four types of the human papillomavirus (HPV) known to cause cervical cancer will be available within weeks in the UK.

The risk for developing the tissue abnormalities, or lesions, that typically precede cervical cancer is much higher for women infected with multiple genotypes of…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee Recommends Human Papillomavirus Virus Vaccination Vaccine considered highly effective in preventing infections that are the cause of most cervical cancers.

The…