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Healthline
The majority of cervical cancer cases are caused by the human papillomavirus virus — or so we thought.
Lately other links have been investigated and among them, rheumatoid arthritis.
Now, RA has been shown to be associated with cervical cancer.
And scientists are now faced with the question of what came first, the cancer or the RA? And did RA biologic treatment perhaps worsen or cause the cervical cancer?
Researchers hope to uncover the answers to these questions as they strive to better understand the complex, puzzling link between autoimmune inflammatory conditions and various forms of cancer.
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ASCT
Join us in sunny Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for the 2016 American Society for Cytotechnology Annual Conference.
Topics include ROSE-EUS/EBUS, Thyroid FNA and Molecular Testing, Quality Control/Lab Operations and Student Presentations. Click here for more information.
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March 15, 2016
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Pancreatic Cytology and the Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology Guidelines: Impact and Issues
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 Lester J. Layfield, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences
University of Missouri
Columbia, Missouri
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May 11, 2016
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Error Reduction in the Cytopathology Laboratory |
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 Kara Hansing, MEd, SCT(ASCP)
Cytotechnology Program Director
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
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Quality Assessment Center (QAC) Cell Blocks Basics Workbench
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Quality Assessment Center (QAC)
Document Control for Cytopathology Workbench
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Quality Assessment Center (QAC)
The LEAN Cytopathology Laboratory Workbench
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Forbes
The human papillomavirus vaccine has slashed rates of the HPV strains covered by the vaccine by more than half in teens and by a third among women in their 20s, found a new study — and that's before the newest vaccine with greater coverage of HPV strains had even been introduced. HPV causes nearly all cervical cancers as well as a proportion of oral, vulvar, vaginal, penile and anal cancers.
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National Post
A controversial paper from a University of British Columbia scientist that questioned the safety of a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine has been retracted.
Retraction Watch reports that a paper published online in the journal Vaccine last month and temporarily removed weeks later has now officially been retracted.
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Health Canal
Uninsured low-income women already face financial barriers to receiving recommended screenings for breast and cervical cancer, and a greater number of these women will remain without health insurance — and at risk — in states that continue to balk at expanding Medicaid, according to a study published today in the journal Women’s Health Issues.
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AJMC
In 2014, a human papillomavirus (HPV) test that detects high-risk types and individual genotypes HPV 16 and 18 utilizing amplification of target DNA (the cobas HPV Test) was approved by the FDA for primary screening in cervical cancer. HPV types 16 and 18 have been found to cause more than 70 percent of cervical cancers1; women who are positive for HPV 16 and/or 18 are at an increased risk of high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), even if they have normal cytology.
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The Atlantic
The rise of immunotherapy has been one of the most startling and promising developments in cancer research for some time. After decades of false starts and dead ends, scientists have finally found effective ways of marshaling the immune system to destroy cancers. Some use drugs called "checkpoint inhibitors" to lift the natural brakes that restrain immune cells, allowing them to go to town on tumors. Others are extracting, engineering, and re-injecting the immune cells themselves. The results have been staggering. Advanced cancers have gone into complete remission. People who were given months to live are still here years later.
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GOOD Magazine
By now, you've surely encountered the story of the Zika virus — its enigmatic origins resemble nothing so much as a ghostly tale told round a campfire. In May 2015, doctors in Brazil were grappling with twin mysteries: First, a dramatic increase in the number of babies born with microcephaly, a condition resulting in reduced cranium size in newborns. Second, a localized outbreak of the Zika virus, the first time the disease was documented at scale in South America. Within months, the mosquito-borne Zika virus outbreak had gone from a few hundred cases to a few thousand.
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RedBook
Each year, thousands of women in the United States are diagnosed with some form of gynecologic cancer — diseases that people don't like to talk about and that doctors have a hard time treating. Here's what you need to know to help them, and yourself.
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