by Len Canter, Healthday Reporter (HealthDay)—HPV, the human papillomavirus, is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States, with 14 million new cases each year. While most people are able to clear the virus on their own, certain strains of HPV lead to cancer years after exposure. In fact, HPV-related cancers affect more than 30,000 Americans every year. The...
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New epigenetic cervical cancer test has 100 per cent detection rate
A new test for cervical cancer was found to detect all of the cancers in a randomized clinical screening trial of 15,744 women, outperforming both the current Pap smear and human papillomavirus (HPV) test at a reduced cost, according to a study led by Queen Mary University of London. The study, published in the International...
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Teenaged girls did not engage in riskier sexual behavior after HPV vaccination introduced in school
Despite fears to the contrary, sexual behaviors of adolescent girls stayed the same or became safer after publicly funded school-based HPV vaccinations were introduced in British Columbia (BC), according to new research published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) Some groups have been concerned that HPV vaccination could encourage early sexual activity, unprotected sex, and...
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Study links individual HPV types to HIV infection
UC Riverside-led study finds persons with any HPV type, more than one HPV type, or high-risk HPV are more likely to test HIV positive UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – RIVERSIDE IMAGE: BRANDON BROWN SEEN HERE AT HIS DESK. CREDIT: GENEVIEVE CASANOVA, UC RIVERSIDE. RIVERSIDE, Calif. — An international research team led by a scientist at the University of California, Riverside, has for the first time identified individual types...
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Delay in replacing the Pap smear with HPV screening is costing lives
An abnormal Pap test. Credit: Komsan Loonprom/Shutterstock.comIt was established a decade ago that testing for the presence of HPV – the virus that causes cervical cancer – is a better cervical screening test than the Pap smear. Yet in England, the Pap smear is still used, and it’s costing lives. Credit: Iryna Inshyna/Shutterstock.com Current screening for...