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The Huffington Post
Cervical cancer is one of the deadliest cancers among women, but also one of the most preventable, yet low-income patients often don't have access to effective diagnostic measures.
That's why a small startup is working to bring a portable, low-cost screening tool to underserved women. Every year, more than 270,000 people die from cervical cancer, 85 percent of whom are in the developing world, according to the World Health Organization.
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Make sure to stop by the ASCT Booth in the Exhibit Hall during the Nov. 13-16, 2015 ASC Annual Scientific Meeting in Chicago. Pick up a webinar schedule; order a Quality Assurance Center Module; renew your membership; and/or treat yourself to a tote bag, HPV plushy, microscope pin, notecards or playing cards. ASCT Executive Director Beth Denny will be at Booth #113.
ASCT Services, Inc. will be nearby in Booth #101. Stop by and learn more about joining ASCT Services' highly skilled laboratory survey teams. ASCT Services, Inc. directly impacts and improves patient care by upholding cytology CLIA regulations as well as individual laboratory standards and procedures. Learn more about this rewarding opportunity.
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The Boston Globe
Doctors may be inadvertently discouraging some parents from having their preteens vaccinated against human papillomavirus, according to a new study, which suggests clinicians often don’t recommend the vaccine strongly enough. Many pediatricians and family physicians — who deliver the bulk of HPV vaccines — don't appear to be using the same matter-of-fact approaches as they do when they urge parents to vaccinate their adolescents against meningococcal disease or to get tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis booster shots, it said.
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UPI
Researchers found in a study of girls in Texas that a multicomponent outreach program helped increase the rate of completion of the three-shot human papillomavirus, or HPV, vaccine. HPV, a group of more than 200 related viruses, are the most common sexually transmitted infections in the United States. Among sexually active adults, more than 90 percent of men and 80 percent of women will be infected with HPV, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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News-Medical
The latest Special Issue from ecancermedicalscience collects four new research articles on the topic of cervical cancer prevention in Latin America. Cervical cancer is an "enormous burden" for Latin American society, and the third leading cause of cancer deaths among women in the region, say Guest Editors Dr. María Correnti and Dr. María Eugenia Cavazza of the Central University of Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela.
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The Washington Post
It's the latest battle over screening: Should healthy women skip annual pelvic exams? A controversial recommendation last year by the American College of Physicians, which represents the nation’s internists, strongly urged that doctors stop routinely performing the invasive exam on women without symptoms and who are not pregnant.
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CBC
Manitoba is expanding its HPV vaccine program to include boys.
The expanded program, which will roll out in September 2016, will offer free vaccines to boys and girls in Grade 6 across Manitoba.
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Forbes
The number of people living with stage 4, metastatic breast cancer is unknown. A journalist or doctor might be surprised by this lack of information, as I was surprised a few years back. The NCI is working to fill this knowledge gap (see below). Yet there's not even a ballpark figure – give or take, say, 20,000 U.S. people – for the number of women and men who have this incurable condition.
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U.S. News & World Report
Surviving cancer is a relatively new phenomenon. Fifteen years ago, breast cancer patients had a 50 percent chance of living five years after their diagnosis. Today, more than 90 percent survive five years or longer. Two decades ago, about 50 percent of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia survived five years; today, with better treatment, more than 95 percent of patients live at least five years.
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