By Debra A. Novak*, DSN, RN, and Stacey M. Benson, MS, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, National Personal Protective Technology, Laboratory, Pittsburgh, Pa. More than 500,000 workers are exposed to surgical smoke every year; numerous studies have documented dangerous atmospheric agents in surgical smoke causing a range of adverse health symptoms and effects.[1,2,3] […]
HPV link comes as a shock to male cancer patients
By Anika Clark Stanley Sikora of Fall River and Tom Souza of Swansea clearly remember when they started their battles with cancer — life-changing moments while raking leaves or shaving, when they touched their necks and felt a lump. It’s a common experience thanks to a disease that, between the suffering of friends, families and […]
HPV Vaccination — More Answers, More Questions
George F. Sawaya, M.D., and Karen Smith-McCune, M.D., Ph.D. N Engl J Med 2007; 356:1991-1993May 10, 2007 The availability of a “cancer vaccine” has elicited enormous enthusiasm from the medical community and the public, culminating in advocacy for mandatory vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) and a recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]
HPV Genotyping Clinical Guidelines?
SANE Vax, Inc. By Norma Erickson March 27, 2011 HPV Genotyping Clinical Update National Cancer Institute studies have shown that women with HPV types 16 and 18 have about a 20% risk of progressing to CIN3 over 10 years despite negative Pap tests, and colposcopy may be useful for these women. However, most HPV […]
Multiple Human Papillomavirus Infections: The Exception or the Rule?
Martyn Plummer, Salvatore Vaccarella and Silvia Franceschi In this issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Chaturvedi et al [ 1] report on a large epidemiological study of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection focusing on a topic of increasing interest in this field. HPV is recognized as a necessary cause of cervical cancer, but there are […]
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