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Oral sex may cause more oral cancer than smoking in men, researchers say

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Source: www.bloomberg.com Author: Robert Langreth A virus spread by oral sex may cause more cases of throat cancer in men than smoking, a finding that spurred calls for a new large-scale test of a drug used against the infection. Researchers examined 271 throat-tumor samples collected over 20 years ending in 2004 and found that the percentage [...]

HPV Cancer Hits 8,000 Men, 18,000 Women a Year

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

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Source: WebMD.com HPV cancer isn’t just a female problem, new CDC figures show. Although HPV causes 18,000 cancers in women each year, it also causes 8,000 cancers in men, the CDC calculates. To get the figures, CDC researchers analyzed data collected from 2004 to 2008 in two large cancer registries. HPV, human papillomavirus, is the [...]

Young Girls More Likely to Report Side Effects after HPV Vaccine

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

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Source: Therapeutics Daily PORTLAND, Ore., April 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Younger girls are more likely than adult women to report side effects after receiving Gardasil, the human papillomavirus vaccine. The side effects are non-serious and similar to those associated with other vaccines, according to a new study funded by the Centers for Disease Control and [...]

The Gardasil Problem: How The U.S. Lost Faith In A Promising Vaccine

Thursday, April 5, 2012

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Source: Forbes Magazine, written by Matthew Herper Neal Fowler, 50, the chief executive officer of a tiny biotech called Liquidia, was assuming a position common to road-warrior entrepreneurs: leaning his elbows on the seat-back tray in an airplane so he could gaze at the screen of his laptop. That’s when he felt the lump in [...]

HPV Vaccine Reduces All Subtypes of HPV Disease

Monday, April 2, 2012

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Source: Medscape.com Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination substantially reduced the risk for subsequent HPV disease in women who already had 1 bout of HPV-related disease, according to a study published online today in BMJ. “These are, to our knowledge, the first results in vaccinated women who have undergone treatment for HPV-related disease,” write the authors, headed [...]

AAP Now Recommends HPV Vaccine for Boys and Girls

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

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Source: HemOnc Today The American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases issued an updated policy statement on human papillomavirus vaccination that recommends both boys and girls be immunized. The policy statement notes vaccination reduces the incidence of sexually transmitted infections and reduces cancer risk. “Persistent infection with high-risk HPV types is responsible for most [...]

HPV exposure increases men’s risk of cancer

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

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Source: http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/ Author: Zen Vuong “We’re at the precipice of this epidemic,” said Dr. Ezra Cohen, who specializes in head and neck cancers. The culprit is sexually-transmitted human papillomavirus-16. Human papillomavirus-positive head and neck cancer cases have been rising about 3 percent every year for the last three decades, said Cohen of The University of [...]

HPV Vaccine Not Linked To Autoimmune Disorders, Study

Friday, February 3, 2012

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Source: MedicalNewsToday.com A two-year study of nearly 190,000 girls and women, finds that Gardasil, the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine made by Merck & Co, does not trigger autoimmune disorders such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis. The results are published in the Journal of Internal Medicine. Study lead author Dr Chun [...]

Success of HPV vaccination is now a matter of coverage

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

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Source: The Lancet Oncology, Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages 10-12, January 2012 In a pair of articles in The Lancet Oncology, Lehtinen and colleagues and Wheeler and colleagues present 4-year end of study data from a trial of a prophylactic human papillomavirus (HPV)-16/-18 vaccine (Cervarix, GlaxoSmithKline) in young women aged 15-25 years. From a public-health [...]

Boys need the cervical cancer jab, too

Monday, December 5, 2011

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Source: www.telegraph.co.uk Author: Max Pemberton Few politicians will ever admit they are wrong, so I salute health ministers who have finally capitulated to medical opinion and last month announced a U-turn on the cervical cancer vaccine that is given to 12- and 13-year-old girls. Until now, Cervarix, which protects against two strains of the human [...]

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