New HPV Vaccine Might Stop Vulvar Cancer in its Tracks (HealthDay)

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New HPV Vaccine Might Stop Vulvar Cancer in its Tracks (HealthDay)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Nov. 4 (HealthDay News) — A vaccine that targets human papillomavirus (HPV) is able to stop precancerous lesions in the vulva from progressing into full-blown malignancies, Dutch researchers report.

Poor countries see troubling rise in breast cancer (AP)

More than 600 Upper Valley JVS students and staff take part in a human Pink Ribbon Project at the Piqua, Ohio campus on Friday, October 30, 2009. As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month students donated money to the Relay for Life to become part the human ribbon. The project was done, in part, to honor retiring Upper Valley JVS teacher Connie Hobbs who is currently fighting breast cancer. (AP Photo/The Piqua Daily Call, Mike Ullery)AP - Nurses were training women in rural Mexico to examine their breasts for cancer when one raised her hand to object. If she lost her breast, Harvard public health specialist Felicia Knaul recalls the woman saying, “My man would leave me” — and with him, the family’s income.


Focused Radiation May Help Some With Lung Cancer (HealthDay)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Nov. 4 (HealthDay News) — Three-year survival was 100 percent for people with early-stage lung cancer and good lung function who were treated with radical stereotactic radiosurgery using CyberKnife, according to a new study funded by the product’s maker.

Poor nations ‘face booming breast cancer threat’ (AFP)

File photo shows a woman undergoing a mammogram scan at a hospital in Paris. Breast cancer is becoming an increasingly global epidemic, plaguing more people in developing countries where mortality rates are higher and many lack access to care, US researchers warned.(AFP/File/Joel Saget)AFP - Breast cancer is becoming an increasingly global epidemic, plaguing more people in developing countries where mortality rates are higher and many lack access to care, US researchers warned.


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