What Doctors Don't Tell YouWomen have had another salutary reminder that, despite what doctors and the government like to pretend, the cervical smear test is a far from foolproof marker for cancer (see WDDTY, Vol 1 No 3). ...
The belief that a virus that causes genital warts is also the cause of cervical cancer has been discounted following a study of 200 women. ...
Cervical cancer is invariably caused by the HPV (human papillomavirus) infection. Globally around 470,000 new cases are reported every year, and the disease annually kills around 230,000 women, many of whom are from developing countries. And so when...
Your daily newspaper may well have reported on the latest medical breakthrough - a vaccine that fights a virus that can cause cervical cancer. Wonderful if true, of course, but we would have long since retired if we’d been given £5 for every medical...
CANCER & THE PILL: At least something's getting clearer
RE COIL: The IUD may protect against cancer
