Category Archives: Cervical CancerSustainable Health Care For Women For regular readers of ‘Inconvenient Woman’, this will seem like an oft repeated refrain, but there are better, safer, more sustainable ways to prevent and treat cervical cancer both at home and in developing countries. Safety, and ethical issues aside, , many countries (in my opinion the Us is one [...]
The Pap test is recommended for all women, and can be done in a doctor’s office or clinic. During the Pap test, the doctor will use a plastic or metal instrument, called a speculum, to widen your vagina. This helps the doctor examine the vagina and the cervix, and collect a few cells and mucus from the cervix and the area around it. The cells are then placed on a slide or in a bottle of liquid and sent to a laboratory. The laboratory will check to be sure that the cells are normal.
Almost all cervical cancers are caused by human papillomavirus (HPV), a common virus that can be passed from one person to another during sex. There are many types of HPV. Some HPV types can cause changes on a woman’s cervix that can lead to cervical cancer over time, while other types can cause genital warts.
More black and Hispanic women get cervical cancer and are diagnosed at later stages of the disease than women of other races or ethnicities, possibly because of decreased access to Pap testing or follow-up treatment.
Graphic representation of incidents of cervical cancer compared by race and ethnicity. Recent trends suggest that cervical cancer incidence and mortality among women in some racial and ethnic populations in the United States continue to decrease significantly; however, rates are considerably higher among Hispanic and African-American women.1
State by State graphic representation of incident rates at which women developed or died from cervical cancer in 2005, the most recent year for which statistics are available.
FDA News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 13, 2009 Media Inquiries: Siobhan DeLancey, 301-796-4668 Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA Agency also approved second DNA test for wider range of HPV types The U.S. Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved the first DNA test that identifies the two types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that cause the majority of cervical [...]
En este pequeño documento intento que la gente conozca la vacuna que inventaron en México, en la UNAM, que cura las lesiones papilomatosas incluso cuando son cancerosas, es decir, cura el cáncer concomitante al papilomavirus (HPV o por sus siglas en castellano: PVH).
También quiero que se corra el velo sobre una verdad oculta: la carencia de la vitamina b17 es causa de cáncer, y su ingesta, la cura.
Due to the limited contact of the human papillomavirus (HPV) with the immune system, past infection does not guarantee lasting protection.
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