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Increased cancer in military pilots and ground crew: Pentagon
But military aircrew and ground crew were less likely to die from cancer, compared with the U.S. population.
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Ovarian cancer risk lower with daily aspirin, despite genetics
Although promising for chemoprevention, aspirin use can also come with downsides.
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Scientists create ‘vagina on a chip’: What to know
Researchers see the chip as a way to facilitate vaginal health research and open the door to vital new treatments.
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Renewed calls for fallopian tube removal to avoid ovarian cancer
There is increasing evidence that most high-grade serous ovarian cancers arise from cells in the fallopian tubes.
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Which populations should be screened for cervical cancer?
Whether you are a cisgender woman or a transgender man who has kept his uterus, regardless of the sex of your partner, and even if you are a woman...
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Update on secondary cytoreduction in recurrent ovarian cancer
Secondary debulking surgery has been studied since the 1980s with mixed results; these data have shown that the largest barrier to care has been...
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Cervical cancer in women 65+ often deadly: so why not screen?
Older patients, even those with early disease, had much poorer survival after they were diagnosed with cervical cancer than their younger...
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Cervical cancer rise in White women: A ‘canary in the coal mine’
“If rising incidence is not for localized-stage disease, but for advanced stages, that means it’s attributable to lack of screening.”
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FDA requests more restrictions on ovarian cancer drugs
Several companies have already withdrawn their respective PARP inhibitors for heavily pretreated patients with ovarian cancer.
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Transgender patients on hormone therapy require monitoring
These patients have an increased mortality risk and so must be closely monitored, especially in terms of cardiovascular health and oncology.
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Update on high-grade vulvar interepithelial neoplasia
Treatment of high-grade vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia should be driven by the clinical characteristics of the vulvar lesions, patients’...