In several studies, it’s also linked to the nation’s leading cause of death—cardiovascular disease. There are more than 150 strains of HPV, including the ones responsible for cancers of the cervix, penis, anus and the back of the throat. In a study published earlier this year in Circulation Research, researchers found that Korean women infected with these “high-risk”...
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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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Cell-compressing technique a new path in Immunotherapy
Cell-based immunotherapies, which often involve engineering cells to activate or suppress the immune system, have delivered some dramatic results to cancer patients with few other options. But the complex process of developing these therapies has limited a field that many believe could be a powerful new frontier in medicine. To engineer cell functions, SQZ Biotech uses tiny...
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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...
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HPV testing is better than the Pap test at detecting cervical cancer
A new paper in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute finds that testing for cervical cancer using HPV testing in addition to the Pap smear is unlikely to detect cancer cases that wouldn’t be found using HPV testing alone. The main goal of cervical screening programs is to detect and treat precancer before cancer develops. Cytology-based...
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Smear tests could be cut to three in a lifetime: Women could soon be spared regular ordeal of a check due to more sensitive tests being rolled out
At the moment women in England are invited for cervical cancer screening 12 times between the ages of 25 and 64 The frequency of the tests is thought to be contributing to falling uptake And in future, women who have received the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine at school might only need to be screened three...
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A World First CRISPR Trial Will Edit Genes Inside the Human Body
IN BRIEF The CRISPR process will be used inside the human body for the first time on July 15th to combat HPV, which impacts millions of people worldwide. And this is just one of a huge amount of proposed CRISPR studies occurring soon. UNINVASIVE CRISPR A new CRISPR trial, which hopes to eliminate the human papillomavirus (HPV),...