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Oral Cancer Foundation donates screening devices to West Virginia Free Clinics
Source: www.prnewswire.com Author: press release In 2009 the Oral Cancer Foundation initiated a program of donating VELscope® Oral Cancer Screening Systems to free clinics. The most recent recipients of this program are two West Virginia clinics: WV Health Right in Charleston, and the Susan Dew Hoff Memorial Clinic in West Milford. “Our intent is to identify free [...]
Continue reading...Study suggests VELscope can help reduce recurrence of oral cancer
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Source: www.dentaleconomics.com Author: staff LED Dental has announced a recent study suggests that its VELscope screening system can help surgeons reduce the recurrence rate for oral cancer following surgery. The article, “Tracing the ‘At-Risk’ Oral Mucosa Field with Autofluorescence: Steps Toward Clinical Impact,” was just published in the journal, Cancer Prevention Research. The article was was authored [...]
Continue reading...Oropharyngeal cancer, human papilloma virus, and clinical trials
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Source: Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol 28, No 1 (January 1), 2010: pp. 1-3 Author: Danny Rischin As advances in our understanding of the molecular biology of cancer have evolved in recent years, cancers that were once considered to be relatively homogeneous diseases are now being recognized as comprising distinct subtypes. These subtypes may differ in etiology, [...]
Continue reading...Comparative prognostic value of HPV16 E6 mRNA compared with in situ hybridization for human oropharyngeal squamous carcinoma
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Source: Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol 27, No 36 (December 20), 2009: pp. 6213-6221 Authors: Wei Shi et al. Purpose: A significant proportion of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas (OSCC) are associated with the human papilloma virus (HPV), particularly HPV16. The optimal method for HPV determination on archival materials however, remains unclear. We compared a quantitative real-time polymerase chain [...]
Continue reading...Should your son get the HPV vaccine?
Saturday, November 28, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...After being diagnosed, Zenk Pinter is an oral cancer spokesperson
Saturday, November 28, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Medicines to deter some cancers are not taken
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Source: www.nytimes.com Author: Gina Kolata Many Americans do not think twice about taking medicines to prevent heart disease and stroke. But cancer is different. Much of what Americans do in the name of warding off cancer has not been shown to matter, and some things are actually harmful. Yet the few medicines proved to deter cancer [...]
Continue reading...Risk factors and survival by HPV-16 E6 and E7 antibody status in human papillomavirus positive head and neck cancer
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Source: Int J Cancer, October 28, 2009 Author: Elaine M Smith et al. High-risk human papillomavirus types (HPV-HR) are associated with head and neck cancer (HNC) risk and better survival. Most patients with HPV-HR DNA-positive tumors develop anti-HPV E6/E7 antibodies; however, it is unclear whether those who mount an immune response have similar risk factors [...]
Continue reading...Comparative prognostic value of HPV16 E6 mRNA compared with in situ hybridization for human oropharyngeal squamous carcinoma
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Source: Journal of Clinical Oncology, 10.1200/JCO.2009.23.1670 Author: Wei Shi et al. Purpose: A significant proportion of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas (OSCC) are associated with the human papilloma virus (HPV), particularly HPV16. The optimal method for HPV determination on archival materials however, remains unclear. We compared a quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) assay for HPV16 mRNA to a [...]
Continue reading...PMH finding may help some tonsil cancer patients avoid chemotherapy
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Source: www.sciencecodex.com Author: staff Clinical researchers at Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) have confirmed that patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell cancer (”tonsil cancer”) harbour a common type of human papilloma virus (HPV16), but also that such cancers are very sensitive to radiation. For some patients, this may mean successful treatment with radiation alone and avoiding the side effects [...]
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- Why men’s health is a feminist issue
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- New technology helps those affected by HPV
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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