At a glance: Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer in women, and the seventh overall, with an estimated 530 000 new cases in 2008. More than 85% of the global burden occurs in developing countries, where it accounts for 13% of all female cancers. High-risk regions are Eastern and Western Africa (ASR greater […]
HPV Affects Half Of U.S. Men
The Huffington Post Dr. Jon LaPook Medical correspondent for the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric Posted: March 1, 2011 07:02 AM A study out yesterday in The Lancet by Moffitt Cancer Center researcher Anna Giuliano, Ph.D., and her colleagues finds that 50 percent of men ages 18 to 70 in Brazil, Mexico, and the […]
Half of adult males carry HPV
Science News Human papillomavirus lingers for months in men, study shows By Nathan Seppa Web edition : Monday, February 28th, 2011 The virus notorious for causing cervical cancer in women also turns up frequently in men and can hang on unnoticed for months or even years, researchers report online March 1 in Lancet. The study […]
One-in-four girls ignoring cervical cancer vaccine
Herald Sun Marianne Betts March 01, 2011 6:00AM A QUARTER of young girls are forsaking a life-saving cervical cancer vaccine because of ignorance. Two studies suggested an alarming lack of knowledge was to blame for many girls aged 12-13 not taking up the vaccine, Cancer Council spokeswoman Kate Broun said. The Gardasil jab, which protects […]
Call for jabs to protect against STI
Your Canterbury
February 27, 2011
Sexual health doctors have urged the Government to vaccinate against genital warts as part of the school-based jabs programme.
Cases of the sexually transmitted infection (STI) have soared, with an increase of 33 per cent across the South East since 2000.
More than 400 new cases per 100,000 of the population were diagnosed in Kent in 2009.
Medway had the highest rate of the infection at 167 in 2009. Recent figures from Medway’s GUM (genitor-urinary medicine) clinic show cases of genital warts rose 36 per cent from 302 to 412 between 2004 and 2010.
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