Health Dept.: Cervical cancer questions and answers - Baltimore Sun

Health Dept.: Cervical cancer questions and answers - Baltimore Sun

Health Dept.: Cervical cancer questions and answers - Baltimore Sun

Posted: 15 Feb 2020 02:58 AM PST

The National Cervical Cancer Coalition estimates that there are approximately 79 million people in the United States who have HPV. In addition to cervical cancer, HPV can cause cancer of the vagina and vulva in women; cancer of the penis in men; and anal cancer, mouth/throat cancer, and genital warts in men and women.

Cervical cancer could soon be a disease of the past - Popular Science

Posted: 12 Feb 2020 08:05 AM PST

The team hopes that the findings will galvanize public health authorities to understand how important it is to invest in these preventative strategies, Emily Burger, a research scientist at the Center for Health Decision Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and another coauthor of the new study, told Popular Science in an email. However, she warned, "Any changes to current practice, such as lower HPV vaccination uptake, could disrupt or delay our projections of the timing of cervical cancer elimination in the US."

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