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The lights of the Eiffel Tower in Paris were extinguished on Monday, 21 April, as part of a tribute to the late Pope Francis.
He expressed concern that every year in Nigeria, more than 12,000 women suffer from cervical cancer, saying the disease is preventable. Prof. Pate noted that President Bola Tinubu was committed to ...
Launched in 2023 to prevent cervical cancer, India’s first indigenous human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine—Cervavac—has found only 63 takers in the 18-25 age group at the Post Graduate ...
Roche Diagnostics is looking to a new screening tool to help women learn in a more private way if they are at increased risk for cervical cancer—a self-collection test to identify HPV.
PETALING JAYA: Cervical cancer is ranked as the fourth most common cancer affecting women in Malaysia, with 1,740 cases in 2020 of whom 991 or 57% succumbed to the disease, according to the Global ...
MSD’s checkpoint inhibitor Keytruda has been cleared by the FDA for use in newly diagnosed cervical cancer patients with less severe disease, becoming the first anti-PD-1/PD-L1 immunotherapy for ...
Keytruda (pembrolizumab) was given an accelerated approval in 2018 as a second-line therapy for PD-L1-positive cervical cancer, but the new survival data – from the phase 3 KEYNOTE-826 trial ...
First Lady Oluremi Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI) has announced a N1 billion donation to the fight against cervical cancer by the National Cancer Fund. The donation, which coincided with ...
Experts are warning against overusing these common cooking oils because they contain a fat that is reportedly linked to breast cancer. Seed and vegetable oils don’t have the best reputation ...
Every two minutes, a woman’s life is claimed by cervical cancer—a largely preventable disease—yet, the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine could save up to 560,000 lives every year. Cervical cancer is ...
Figure 4 shows VIA-positive finding. Women with very early stage invasive cervical cancer may be offered hysterectomy at the regional hospital. For later stage cancers, if radiotherapy and ...