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Health Encyclopedia: Cervical Cancer Treatment For Cervical Cancer

Treatment for Cervical Cancer

In contrast to CIN, cervical cancer represents true invasion of cells beyond the epithelium into surrounding tissue. Cervical cancer may be detected in a biopsy performed during colposcopy for an abnormal Pap smear, or it may be visible to the naked eye when the doctor performs a speculum exam.

Imaging Tests to Determine Extent of Tumor Spread. If invasive cancer is detected on biopsy, additional tests are performed to determine the tumor spread. The extent of the spr...

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Expert & Community Posts

The Pros and Cons of Gardasil

By Eileen Bailey , Health Expert

...old and up to age 26. HPV is the leading cause of cervical cancer. According to the Centers... Read more »

Gardasil Marketed for Males to Prevent Genital Warts (and other ways men can prevent STDs)

By Merely Me , Health Expert

...Gardasil (the drug used to vaccinate young women against cervical cancer) may get FDA approval... Read more »

The Importance of Pap Smears

By Eileen Bailey , Health Expert

...important part of a women's preventive health care. Cervical cancer is diagnosed about 10,000... Read more »

HPV Test Better Than Pap Test?

By Charlotte Grayson, M.D. , Health Expert

...traditional Pap smear in detecting early precancerous cervical cancers. The authors of the study... Read more »

Nobel Awards This Year Goes to AIDS and HPV Research

By healthgal , Health Expert

...showing that the human papilloma virus (HPV) caused cervical cancer. HPV causes genital warts... Read more »

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Cervical Cancer Symptoms

Cervical cancer is the third largest type of cancer in women worldwide, but is less widespread in the United States due to the use of routine Pap smears. According to the website,... Read more »

Cervical Cancer: Treatment for Invasive Cervical Cancer

for Invasive Cervical CancerRadiation therapy and surgery are about equally effective as a single option for treating very small cervical cancers in their earliest stages, with survival... Read more »

Gardasil: The Cervical Cancer Vaccine

Cervical Cancer VaccineIn June 2006, the FDA approved Gardasil, the first vaccine designed to prevent cervical cancer. The vaccine is approved for females ages 9 ? 26. It protects against... Read more »

Cervical Cancer: Resources

...Associationwww.arhp.org -- Association of Reproductive Health Professionalswww.nccc-online.org -- National Cervical Cancer Coalitionwww.cervicalcancercampaign.org -- Cervical Cancer Public... Read more »

Cervical Cancer: Prognosis

...situ will develop into invasive cancers over a period of 10 - 12 years.Survival Rates in Women with Cervical CancerOver the past 30 years, the death rate from cervical cancer has declined... Read more »

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Cervical Cancer Screening Needed in Developing World

July 02, 2008

(Ivanhoe Newswire) Few women in the developing world are getting the cervical cancer screenings they need. A new study from the University of... Read summary »

Doctors Recommend HPV Test

October 24, 2007

By Lindsay Braun, Ivanhoe Health Correspondent ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- When it comes to detecting cervical cancer, human... Read summary »

Vaccine Protects Against Cervical Cancer

May 05, 2008

PORTLAND (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- Cervical cancer kills about 200,000 women each year worldwide. High-risk infections cause it to develop --... Read summary »

New Ovarian Cancer Screening

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REDINGTON BEACH, Fla. (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- A mammogram detects breast cancer. A Pap test detects cervical cancer. But there's not a test to... Read summary »

New guidelines for cervical cancer vaccine

October 02, 2008

The American Cancer Society has issued a recommendation that all girls between the ages of 11 and 12 should be given the cervical cancer vaccine. The... Read summary »

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