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Dose of reality: HPV is epidemic, which is odd since it is largely preventable

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Source: www.sciencenews.org Author: Nathan Seppa There are two vaccines that guard against human papillomavirus, and they are in rare company among medical inventions — the vaccines prevent cancer. Only the hepatitis B vaccine can make the same claim. Cancer-causing HPV can trigger abnormal cell growth on the cervix, and cervical cancer still kills up to [...]

HPV linked to certain lung cancers; is oral sex to blame?

Thursday, April 11, 2013

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Source: www.medicaldaily.com Author: Jonathan Weiss By now, it’s a given that smoking causes lung cancer. The American Lung Association reports that 80 to 90 percent of all cases of lung cancer are smoking-related. The remaining 10 to 20 percent, though, has been more of a mystery — until now. A new line of research has [...]

U.S. death rate from cancer is dropping

Thursday, January 31, 2013

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Source: www.webpronews.com Author: Sean Patterson Though cancer hasn’t been completely cured, it’s clear that treatments for the disease have improved over the past two decades. A yearly report from the American Cancer Society has shown that the death rate from cancer in the U.S. is declining among all Americans and for the most common types [...]

HPV alters oral-cancer expectations

Monday, December 31, 2012

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Source: www.dispatch.com Author: staff Demographics are important to physicians. Demographics help guide us toward more-likely and less-likely diagnoses in patients.In their most basic form, they mean we are surprised when we learn that the 90-year-old woman with hand pain suffered the injury while boxing. On the other hand, demographics are why a doctor tells the [...]

HPV vaccine does not encourage teen sex

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

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Source: wtkr.com Author: CNN staff There’s been a lot of controversy over the HPV vaccine. Because Gardasil is designed to protect young people against human papillomavirus, a common sexually transmitted disease, some people believe the inoculation gives teens the go-ahead to have sex. Researchers are finding that’s not the case. HPV is known to be [...]

HPV vaccine not just for girls

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

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Source: www.statesmanjournal.com Author: staff It’s been hard enough to persuade parents to get their preteen girls vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer. Now, health-care providers have an even harder sell: reaching the parents of boys. The vaccine that protects against human papillomavirus, or HPV, has been approved for use in boys since it [...]

Oral cancer deaths declining among well-educated

Monday, August 6, 2012

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Source: www.reuters.com Author: Genevra Pittman Deaths from mouth and throat cancer have dropped since the early 1990s, according to a new study — but only among people with at least a high school education. Researchers said that may be due to higher rates of smoking and other oral cancer risks among less educated, poorer Americans, [...]

Gardasil vaccine to be free for boys for protection against human papilloma virus

Thursday, July 12, 2012

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Source: Herald Sun IN a world first, Australian schoolboys will receive the Gardasil vaccine free from next year. Federal Health Minister Tanya Plibersek’s announcement yesterday comes five years after it was first funded for girls. She said about 870,000 boys would receive Gardasil over the next four years under the national immunisation program, costing about [...]

Viral Marketing: What’s Stopping Men From Getting the HPV Vaccine

Monday, July 9, 2012

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Source: GOOD Mobile By: Jake Blumgart on July 6, 2012 at 3:00AM PDT In early 2011, my doctor informed me that a vaccine to protect against the human papillomavirus—HPV—was now available for men. I was relieved, then frustrated—my doctor didn’t actually offer the principal vaccine, Gardasil, to her male patients. After a couple days of hunting [...]

Cross-sectional study on the prevalence of HPV antibodies in the general population of the Czech Republic

Monday, June 11, 2012

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Source: BMJ Correspondence to Dr Eva Hamsikova, Department of Experimental Virology, Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, U Nemocnice 1, 128 20 Praha 2, Czech Republic; eva.hamsikova@uhkt.cz Contributors EH participated in the design and coordination of the study, evaluated results, performed statistical analysis and drafted the manuscript. VL prepared antigens for assessment of antibody presence. [...]

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