Cervical Cancer News

The four-type human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil is also effective in men according to the primary analysis from a pivotal phase III clinical study.

Main Category: Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Also Included In: Clinical Trials / Drug Trials Article Date: 14 Nov 2008 Hologic, Inc.

Dr. Harold Freeman began his medical practice in Harlem, New York in 1967, and was surprised to find out that many if not most of the patients he saw with cancer had advanced disease.

Researchers Say Identification of Women With HPV Types 16, 18 and 45 Could Improve Early Intervention to Stop Cervical Cancer 07:00 Xinhua PR Newswire Results Presented for Genotyping Tests Now Under ...

Main Category: Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Also Included In: Immune System / Vaccines Article Date: 17 Nov 2008 Information about vaccination against the virus that causes cervical cancer could encourage ...

The Australian-pioneered cervical cancer vaccine, Gardasil, has been awarded the drug industry equivalent of a Nobel Prize.

Will yesterday's news that Merck's Gardasil vaccine may protect men, as well as women, from a deadly virus bolster sales of a product that so far has failed to fulfill its maker's hopes for a blockbuster? In ...

A 2.7m pound research centre will search out the earliest signs of cancer - " in the hope of giving patients the best possible chance of beating the disease.

Professor Frazer will outline his latest skin cancer breakthrough tomorrow. ) Map: Brisbane 4000 Human trials of a world-first skin cancer vaccine could start as early as next year.

Miriam Mannak Cape Town Of the 490,000 women worldwide who are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year, 80 percent live in the developing world.

Cervical cancer screening provides better cover than a vaccination programme, Taoiseach Brian Cowen claimed today in the Dail.

As testing for high-risk types of the human papillomavirus emerges as the gold standard in cervical cancer prevention, scientists are already researching how to determine even more precisely who is most likely ...

A rally is to take place in Dublin today against the Minister for Health's plans to scrap the cervical cancer vaccine for young girls.

Arbor Vita Corporation , a privately held biopharmaceutical company, presented new data today on its rapid, point-of-care prototype HPV test with a high positive predictive value for cervical cancer and ...

Donegal TD Jim McDaid says he would have voted against the Government in this week's Dail vote on the cervical cancer vaccination programme if such a move would have reversed Mary Harney's decision to scrap the ...

Tanaiste Mary Coughlan has admitted that the latest Irish Times /TNS mrbi poll, which shows support for the Government plummeting, is extremely "disappointing" but has pledged to continue with efforts to rescue ...

Main Category: Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Article Date: 12 Nov 2008 - 2:00 PST New survey results announced today, reveal a significant lack of information and education about the prevention, treatment and ...

GARDASILA [Human Papillomavirus Quadrivalent Vaccine, Recombinant], the cervical cancer vaccine from Merck & Co., Inc., prevented 90 percent of external genital lesions caused by human papillomavirus types 6, ...