WHO: Cervical Cancer is Preventable
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The World Health Organization (WHO) says almost 250,000 women, most in developing countries, are dying each year from cervical cancer.
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Taking up a potentially explosive issue among religious conservatives, an influential government advisory panel Thursday recommended that 11- and 12-year-old girls be routinely vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.
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Researchers are drawing closer to creating a vaccine that would prevent certain viral infections known to cause cervical cancer, a disease that strikes about 15,000 women in the United States each year and kills 5,000, according to the Associated Press.
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FRIDAY, Oct. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Women who have had advanced precancerous lesions of the cervix are still at risk for invasive cancers up to 25 years later, Swedish researchers report.
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A new study of 1,113 women in North America and Brazil has found that a vaccine that could reduce cervical cancer rates by 75 percent is safe and 95 percent effective.
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One in four women ages 14 to 59 is infected with HPV, the sexually transmitted virus that in some forms can cause cervical cancer, according to the first broad national estimate.
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All girls aged 12 or 13 should be vaccinated against the viruses that cause cervical cancer, government health advisors said today.
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Researchers and the medical community alike are excited by a new cervical cancer vaccine. It&#39;s been found to be 100 per cent effective in clinical trials -- the first vaccine ever to prevent a cancer.
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Schoolgirls in Britain will be vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer, ministers have announced.
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A new vaccine being tested on Canadian women appears 100 per cent effective in protecting against multiple strains of the virus that causes cervical cancer, bringing the world a &quot;huge&quot; step closer to the first vaccine against cancer, researchers report.
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NEW YORK NOV 11, 2004  - In a study conducted in North America and Brazil, a bivalent vaccine was effective in preventing infection with the two most common oncogenic human papillomavirus (HPV) types -- HPV-16 and HPV-18.
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A Merck vaccine, which makes people immune to a common sexually transmitted virus (human papilloma virus - HPV) which causes cervical cancer, seems to continue offering protection from cervical cancer two years after preliminary testing, say scientists at
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More than one-third of American women are infected by human papilloma virus (HPV), which in rare cases can lead to cervical cancer, by the time they are 24 years old, according to a study being published today.
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It's one of the most common cancers in  women and kills about a quarter of a million patients each year  but scientists said on Friday that a new vaccine could prevent  most cases of cervical cancer.
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A gel to destroy cervical cancer cells and minimise the threat of disease is under development.
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All girls of 11 in the EU should be vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer, a medical journal says.
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The sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer in women is poised to become one of the leading causes of oral cancer in men