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Oral sex can add to HPV cancer risk

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Source: www.time.com Author: Coco Masters Oral sex can get most men’s attention. The topic becomes considerably more relevant, however, when coupled with a new study linking the human papillomavirus (HPV) to an increased risk of a kind of oral cancer more often seen in men. The study, which appears in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), [...]

Why men’s health is a feminist issue

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

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Source: www.msmagazine.com Author: Adina Nack Jorge (not his real name) feared his girlfriend would dump him. He’d been diagnosed with genital warts before meeting her, and hadn’t yet told her about his infection. Jorge was being careful—no skin-to-skin sexual contact—but the disclosure was looming. So he’d done some research and learned what caused genital warts. Armed with [...]

New vaccine against HPV approved in Canada

Thursday, February 11, 2010

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Source: www.ctv.ca Author: staff Canadian women have a choice of two vaccines against HPV, the family of viruses that can cause cervical cancer, now that Health Canada has approved GlaxoSmithKline’s vaccine, Cervarix. The vaccine, which is expected to be available by the end of the month, will compete against Gardasil, a product of Merck Canada, which has been [...]

Two doctors explain their support of the Gardasil vaccine

Saturday, January 9, 2010

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Source: www.huffingtonpost.com Author: Marcia G. Yerman As parents contemplate whether or not they should have the Gardasil vaccine administered to their daughters, one of the first places that they turn is to their doctors. In this segment, I posed questions to two doctors supporting the vaccine. Dr. Margaret Lewin, M.D., F.A.C.P., is the Medical Director of Cinergy Health, [...]

Vaccines plus screening could end cervical cancer

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

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Source: www.cancernetwork.com Author: Fram Lowry Out with the old and in with the new is a commonly followed maxim in medicine given the rapid pace of developments in diagnosis and treatment. Human papillomavirus vaccines are relative newcomers to the cervical cancer armamentarium, but they cannot be relied on to do the job on their own; screening is [...]

Should your son get the HPV vaccine?

Saturday, November 28, 2009

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Source: www.nbc-2.com Author: staff TAMPA: David Hastings is back to helping his wife Jo at their Cuban restaurant outside Saint Petersburg. He’s grateful to be here after a very close call. “One morning I was shaving and I noticed this side of my neck was swollen,” Hastings explained. The diagnosis: stage four oral cancer. Until then, David was a [...]

After being diagnosed, Zenk Pinter is an oral cancer spokesperson

Saturday, November 28, 2009

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Source: www.acorn-online.com Author: Susan Wolf Colleen Zenk Pinter of Redding, an actor who stars as Barbara Ryan on As the World Turns, has partnered with the Oral Cancer Foundation, Yale New-Haven Hospital and Roswell Park Cancer Institute to be a spokesperson for oral cancer. Ms. Pinter was diagnosed with oral cancer in March 2007 and is [...]

HPV vaccine clears viral infection and may reduce cancerous lesions

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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Source: www.newswise.com Author: staff Breakthrough study reports complete and partial remissions following vaccination A new vaccine designed to stimulate an immune response against a cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV-16) can eliminate chronic infection by the virus and may cause regression of precancerous genital lesions in women who receive the vaccine. According to a report published in the November 5 [...]

Males can get HPV vaccine Gardasil thanks, in part, to Gulfport cancer survivor

Friday, October 30, 2009

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Source: St. Petersburg Times Author: John Barry David Hastings’ crusade to inoculate boys against a cancer-causing virus that afflicts women — but threatened him, too — has scored a victory. But it’s not quite the one he has been fighting for in the past three years. A panel of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week [...]

HPV vaccine fails to get nod for routine use in boys

Friday, October 23, 2009

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Source: Medscape.com Author: Robert Lowes October 21, 2009 — Despite hearing impassioned pleas to protect both men and women from cancer, a federal advisory panel today declined to recommend that a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine be routinely administered to boys to prevent genital warts. Instead, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) issued a “permissive” recommendation stating that [...]

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