During a live event, Shannon N. Westin, MD, MPH, and participants discussed their experience treating patients with ...

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 ...

Although Malaysia’s on-going efforts against cervical cancer were temporarily derailed by Covid-19 lockdowns, Dr Murallitharan said there is a strong commitment to get them back on track and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The plaintiffs argued that requirements to cover those medications and services are unconstitutional because a volunteer board of medical ... mammography and cervical cancer screening, would ...

The Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko peddled pseudoscience, had Stalin’s backing, and promoted notions that wrecked the lives ...

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 ...

In general, diagnostic HPV tests have to demonstrate accuracy, reproducibility and clinical utility before they can be used in patient management and implemented in cervical cancer screening ...