Cervical cancer rates are on the rise among younger women, owing in part to a lack of awareness, screening and prevention. A ...

The HPV vaccine, called Gardasil-9 — which has no live virus and is completely non-infectious — protects against the six types of HPV most likely to cause cancer, Eckert says. (These are strains 6, 11 ...

Cervical cancer happens when cells change in the cervix, which connects the uterus and vagina. The most important step to find precancerous cervical cells is getting screened. Tests can pick up ...

A report from the CDC shows cervical precancerous lesions dropped 80% in 20-24 year old women screened for cervical cancer ...

HeLa cells get their name from the person they belonged to: Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman and mother of five who in 1951 got diagnosed with cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital. While Lacks ...

The addition of pembrolizumab to chemoradiotherapy improved survival outcomes for women with high-risk, locally advanced ...

Palliative chemotherapy is administered to patients with metastatic or recurrent cervical cancer after salvage radiation or surgical therapy; however, an estimated 4,070 patients die from the disease.

SrdjanPav/Getty Images A recent CDC report builds on existing evidence showing the effectiveness of the HPV vaccine for preventing cervical cancer. While HPV is commonly associated with females ...

It’s easy to think cervical cancer could be 100% preventable. Along with lung, breast, and colorectal cancer, it has screening tests to find precancerous changes that can be treated before full ...