A study funded by Yorkshire Cancer Research has determined the key factors influencing the participation of women in the national cervical screening programme. The findings were published in the journal Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine.
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The F-50 Non-Gyn Slide Processor has a liquid-based cytology system that features more cells per slide, and doesn’t need duplicate preps. The dual filtration disposable filters remove non-diagnostic material to optimize cell presentation. Cells of interest are transferred to the slide in a homogenous thin-layer cell deposit. Throughput: 50 samples/hr.
The results of an online questionnaire of 609 breast cancer survivors in the U.S. suggest that nearly half of patients experienced delays in care during the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study, by researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago, is published in the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment.
Among sexually experienced adults, prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection was primarily reflective of higher number of lifetime sexual partners, specifically >5 lifetime sexual partners, according to study results published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. In each age group, genital HPV prevalence was higher among persons with >5 lifetime sexual partners compared with 1 to 5 lifetime sexual partners in both men and women. There were only slight reductions in HPV prevalence after removing participants who reported a new sexual partner in the past 12 months.
Emerging data have suggested a possible link between the development of plaque psoriasis and human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. "There has been research that suggested that an HPV infection predominantly stimulates systemic interleukin 17 production in HPV-induced carcinogenesis and that HPV infection provides better conditions for IL-17 secretion in the development of cervical cancer," explains Yao-Min Hung, MD. "My colleagues and I hypothesized that HPV infection might provide better conditions for the IL-17-producing T cells and then induce the immunopathogenesis of psoriasis."
The microbes that surround and infiltrate cancer tumours may help predict how a person’s disease progresses and which drugs they are most likely to respond to. A better understanding of this “tumour microbiome” may also lead to new cancer treatments.
New insight into a gene that controls energy production in cancer stem cells could help in the search for a more effective treatment for glioblastoma. A McGill-led study published in Nature Communications reveals that suppressing the OSMR gene can improve the effectiveness of radiation therapy.
The makeup of bacteria that colonize a man's penis can help predict the risk of a serious and hard-to-treat vaginal infection in his female partner, new research suggests. Bacterial vaginosis, also known as BV, can lead to problems in pregnancy and make a woman more vulnerable to several sexually transmitted diseases. More than 20% of women worldwide get BV. For this study, researchers tracked 168 couples and found that women whose partner had BV-related bacteria on their penis were more likely to develop BV within a year.
