HPV Vaccine: The Newest Tool in Fighting Cervical Cancer

Posted by the Health Advocate on January 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

First Fridays in First Person. In the following excerpt from a New YorkTimes article, Dr. Ben Daitz gives a personal account of treating patients with cervical cancer and the changing technologies available for prevention and earlier diagnosis…”Her face was ashen and her body cadaveric, and when I picked her up, she stared at me with hollow, dull eyes as her bones rubbed against my arms.”

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National Cervical Health Awareness Month

Posted by the Health Advocate on January 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

eatured Health Observance. The US Congress has designated January as Cervical Health Awareness Month to increase public health education around cervical cancer and the importance of prevention and early detection. According to the American Cancer Society, approximately 11,000 cases of invasive cervical cancer were diagnosed in the United States during 2008. Moreover, researchers estimate that non-invasive cervical cancer (also called carcinoma in situ) is about 4 times more common than invasive cervical cancer.

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