Articles Tagged With: HPV
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Updates on Cervical Cancer Prevention: Summary and Projected Effect
HPV vaccination and updated screening strategies offer OB/GYN providers powerful tools to prevent cervical cancer. Recent advances, risk-based management, and enhanced follow-up can provide targeted care for high-risk patients to reduce the incidence of cervical cancer while avoiding unnecessary procedures.
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New Guidelines for HPV Testing of Self-Collected Vaginal Specimens
This article outlines national consensus guidelines for the use of human papillomavirus (HPV) testing of self-collected vaginal specimens for cervical cancer screening.
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Eat Your Fruits and Veggies to Decrease HPV Infection
The authors of a study theorized that the increase in vitamin C and other immunological benefits of a regular diet including dark green vegetables and beans and fruits may reduce inflammation and enhance the immune system response, facilitating clearance of genital human papillomavirus.
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HPV Vaccination Disparities Among Adult Women in the United States
A longitudinal, cross-sectional cohort study of 113,344 participants demonstrated that lack of health insurance, lack of stable employment, and lower income were significantly associated with decreased human papillomavirus vaccination uptake in women aged 18-47 years residing in the United States.
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Eat Your Fruits and Veggies to Decrease HPV Infection
Data from a large-scale national health and nutrition survey from 2003-2016 were used to examine the risk of genital human papillomavirus infection in 10,543 women ages 18-59 years.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
Abandoning Universal COVID Admission Screening; Does Obesity Affect HIV Drug Levels? Eat Your Fruits and Vegetables!
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What Do Clinicians Think About the American Cancer Society Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines?
In this study of provider attitudes toward the American Cancer Society 2020 cervical cancer screening guidelines that recommend deferring screening until age 25 years and using human papilloma virus alone as the primary screening, most providers had not adopted the guidelines and were waiting for endorsement by other professional societies, such as the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology.
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New Guidelines on p16/Ki67 Dual Stain for Triage of HPV-Positive Cervical Cancer Screening Tests
This article outlines national consensus guidelines for the use of p16/Ki67 dual stain for triage of human papillomavirus-positive cervical cancer screening tests.
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What Every OB/GYN Should Know About Cervical Cancer Prevention
This narrative review summarizes the steps of human papillomavirus (HPV)-mediated cervical carcinogenesis and uses this to explain current guidelines for HPV vaccination, cervical cancer screening, and management of abnormal results.
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Mothers, Babies, and HPV: Thanks for Not Sharing!
Nearly half of pregnant women in a Canadian study had vaginal swabs positive for human papillomavirus (HPV) deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Only about one-fourth of placentas and newborns produced by those HPV-positive women carried detectable HPV DNA, and all HPV-positive babies had cleared their positivity by 6 months of age.