FRIDAY, Jan. 15, 2021 -- Receipt of screening tests for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancers was below national Heathy People 2020 targets in 2018, according to research published in the Jan. 14 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control...
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(MedPage Today) -- Sequential chemoradiotherapy (CRT) after radical hysterectomy for early-stage cervical cancer topped other adjuvant approaches in a phase III trial from China.
In the randomized, three-arm STARS study involving more than 1,000...
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(MedPage Today) -- Vaginal transmission of cervical cancer -- a phenomenon that has not been previously reported -- was detected in two pediatric patients, researchers in Japan reported.
Two children whose mothers had undetected cervical...
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UCLA researchers have identified a potential diagnostic marker that could help predict how likely someone with cervical cancer is to respond to the standard treatment of chemotherapy and radiation.
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How well women with cervical cancer respond to treatment and survive correlates with the level of 10 proteins in their blood that also are associated with a 'zombie' cell state called senescence, scientists report.
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(MedPage Today) -- Finding reasons for praise and applause during a worldwide pandemic. (Journal of Clinical Oncology)
The anti-PD-1 antibody tislelizumab significantly improved overall survival versus chemotherapy in a phase III trial involving...
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The World Health Organization’s 194 member states have agreed to push for the global elimination of cervical cancer, a disease that every year affects 570,000 women and kills more than 300,000. A new strategy to accelerate the elimination of...
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The World Health Organization (WHO) set out a strategy on Tuesday for eliminating cervical cancer, which would avoid the death of an estimated five million women and girls from the disease, by 2050.
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(MedPage Today) -- Image-guided intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IG-IMRT) for cervical cancer achieved disease control similar to three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3D-CRT) but with substantially less gastrointestinal (GI)...
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A phase III trial from India shows that an advanced radiation therapy technique leads to fewer gastrointestinal side effects in women who receive radiation after undergoing hysterectomy for cervical cancer. Findings from the PARCER trial...
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 21, 2020 -- Women with invasive cervical cancer (ICC) have an increased rate of iatrogenic and noniatrogenic injuries during diagnostic workup, according to a study published online Oct. 21 in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers &...
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(MedPage Today) -- Study Authors: Jiayao Lei, Alexander Ploner, et al.
Target Audience and Goal Statement: Obstetrician-gynecologists, pediatricians, primary care physicians, oncologists, infectious disease specialists, public health and policy...
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(MedPage Today) -- Multiple studies presented at the 2020 European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) virtual congress showed favorable results for potential new cervical cancer treatments, and they are all on a path for accelerated FDA approval...
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(MedPage Today) -- Checkpoint blockade with the PD-1 inhibitor balstilimab, alone or in combination with the anti-CTLA-4 drug zalifrelimab, showed activity in women with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer, preliminary results from two phase...
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 30, 2020 -- Girls who are vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV) may drastically cut their chances of developing cervical cancer by age 30, a huge, new study finds.
Researchers found that of more than 1.6 million young...
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(MedPage Today) -- One-fourth of patients with previously treated, relapsed, or metastatic cervical cancer responded to an investigational antibody-drug conjugate, according to results of a preliminary trial.
Results in 101 patients showed that...
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(MedPage Today) -- Hysterectomy offered no advantage over primary chemoradiation for cervical cancer after intraoperative detection of positive lymph nodes, a large retrospective analysis showed.
Three-fourths of patients remained disease free...
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(MedPage Today) -- Women with advanced, hormone receptor (HR)-positive cervical cancer lived more than twice as long without disease progression if they received the CDK inhibitor palbociclib in addition to hormonal therapy, a small randomized...
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One woman was received a hysterectomy because she was told she had cancer, but she was never was given a biopsy for cancer.
One woman was told she needed a hysterectomy because she had Stage 4 cervical cancer, but after the procedure was informed by...
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Mariners right-hander Kendall Graveman has been diagnosed with a bone tumor in the C6 part of his cervical spine, Ryan Divish of the Seattle Times reports.
Fortunately, Graveman’s tumor is benign and won’t grow or worsen if he continues...
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