Cheap cervical cancer vaccine for poor nations

jiangyun submitted, created time 1 year 1 month (www.newscientist.com)

Cervical cancer rates are soaring as more women than ever are surviving into middle age in poor countries. Now two companies that make vaccines against the human papillomavirus (HPV) - the cause of the majority of cases - have pledged to provide vaccine at a reduced cost to poorer countries.

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CONSISTENT CONDOM USE LOWERS RISK OF HPV INFECTION

HPV Linked to Throat Cancer

angelfish submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.webmd.com)

Oral sex seemed to be the main mode of transmission for oral HPV, although the researchers note that transmission from mouth to mouth contact couldn't be excluded. The new study shows that oral HPV infection is linked to head and neck cancer regardless of two other known risk factors: heavy tobacco and alcohol use.But longtime HPV researcher Maura L. Gillison, MD, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, says the findings should not be seen as cause for undue alarm.

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New Hampshire adopts voluntary HPV vaccine program

Hecate submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.nytimes.com)

While about eighteen US states have considered or are considering making HPV vaccination mandatory for young female students, New Hampshire has tried another tack: The state has made the vaccine available free of charge to girls between the ages of eleven and eighteen, offered on a highest-risk-first-served basis whenever supplies grow short.

The program has been highly successful, showing a huge turnout. “We usually have to bust our hump every September to convince people to get their flu shots,” the article quotes Greg Moore of the Health and Human Services Department

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Case–Control Study of Human Papillomavirus and Oropharyngeal Cancer

deirdre submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (content.nejm.org)

Substantial molecular evidence suggests a role for human papillomavirus (HPV) in the pathogenesis of oropharyngeal squamous-cell carcinoma, but epidemiologic data have been inconsistent. We performed a hospital-based, case–control study of 100 patients with newly diagnosed oropharyngeal cancer and 200 control patients without cancer to evaluate associations between HPV infection and oropharyngeal cancer. Multivariate logistic-regression models were used for case–control comparisons

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