Cervical cancer

people will contract some form of HPV in their lives . In fact there are 6.2 million cases a year in the US alone. (NCBI.NLM.NIH.GOV). There are over a hundred different strains of the virus but only 4 cause cancer. Strains 18 and 16 are the most life threatening, causing cervical cancer in women. Screening for HPV includes…

rarely lead to cancer, medical researchers believe that other factors are involved in the development of cervical cancer. Repeated or constant HPV infections raise the chances of developing the cancer. Precancerous cell changes of the cervix are more common among women who become infected with more than one type of HPV. Moreover, women who smoke cigarettes are twice as likely to develop cervical cancer than those women who don’t smoke. Other risk factors include race, the cancer is less…

become newly infected each year. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease among men and women between the ages of 14 and 25 (NIH). Considering that it is the leading cause of cervical cancer and the staggering number of people infected, the CDC declared…

Once the cell’s DNA is damaged and starts to multiply without restrain, it gives way to cervical cancer. The development of cervical cancer is then divided into 5 stages. In the carcinoma in situ or stage 0, the cancerous cells lie on the cervix but do not penetrate it. Here, the cancer is barely starting and relatively easy to cure when diagnosed early with the Papanicolaou (Pap) test. In stage 1, the cancer spreads into the cervix. Stage 2 sees the malignant cells spread further into the…

against 4 strains of human papillomavirus (HPV). The vaccine protects against two specific strains of HPV that cause the majority of cervical/vaginal cancers. The slogan for the Gardasil Campaign is “One Less” as in one less person with HPV or cervical cancer. The campaign used risk message frames, stigmas, emotions, and scare tactics to reach the universal public fear of cancer to influence and persuade that consumers get this vaccination. Previously,when looking at the rhetoric, the Gardasil…

Prophylactic Vaccines The study sought to investigate on the safety and efficacy of the prophylactic HPV vaccines against the precursor events of cervical cancer in women. It was established that prophylactic vaccines are very effective in averting any HPV infections and are successful in preventing infections that are related to precancerous cervical lesions. The degree of efficacy of the vaccines is different depending on the type of vaccine and the level of the infection. The study…

Preteen or Teen, 2015). Others are more or less benign. Cervical cancer in females is the major carcinoma linked to high risk strains of HPV which can be transmitted through sexual contact. Other cancers associated with the virus include vaginal, vulvar, penile, anal and oropharyngeal cancer (Vaccinating Your Preteen or Teen, 2015). Since the introduction of HPV vaccines—such as Gardasil and Ceravix—in 2006, HPV transmission and associated cancer rates have significantly decreased (Marsa,…

people hear the word HPV(Human Papillomavirus) and really don’t think anything of it but that it's a disease. It's not like when they hear the word cancer and everyone is quickly alarmed. People fail to realize the different things that can eventually cause cancer and HPV is one of them. It is considered to be one of the deadliest diseases after cancer and HIV. As a result of this, researchers have created a drug to prevent the contraction of the disease but parents refuse to allow their child…

drug against cancer. Vogalstein concentrated on colon cancer comparing the DNA of cancer and normal cells, if was found different that it’s not one single mutation but several mutations that led to cancer and he described that combination of genes were involved in cancer. The human genome project was developed finding the genomic cells involving cancer. Lung cancers found to have some evidence regarding ALK mutations. Obesity became the risk factor causing colon, breast and kidney cancer. 40%…

HPV infections cause no symptoms, persistent genital HPV infection can lead to cervical cancer in women, the second most common cancer in women. The ability of HPV to cause cervical cancer was first shown in the 1970s for epidermodysplasia verruciformis, a rare form of widespread non-genital warts that could further progress to squamous cell cancer. In the 1980s, HPV DNA was identified in the majority of cervical cancers, and subsequent epidemiologic studies confirmed that virtually all cases…