Quotes about cervical (16 Quotes)



    For our cervical cancer vaccine we pursued the objective of inducing a strong immune response and protection that lasts. We are encouraged by a sustained enhanced antibody response we saw with an HPV vaccine formulated with our novel adjuvant.

    African-American women have twice the mortality rate from cervical cancer as white women. Researchers need to investigate how those differences are related to socioeconomic status.

    It's certainly a major medical need in the ability to prevent cervical cancer. That gives it the potential to be a blockbuster. We're not expecting a real quick ramp up on this, though it could become a billion dollar drug.

    Females age 16 and under have immature cells of the cervix. These immature cervical cells are much more likely to be infected with HPV than the cervical cells of older women. And when a female age 16 and under is infected with HPV, the virus tends to cause more damage to the immature cervical cells.


    An estimated 2 million American women will be diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer this decade and screening could prevent up to 30% of these deaths for women over 40.

    The results of this study, ... indicate that achieving fusion in the cervical spine significantly improves pain scores. Thus, efforts to accelerate the fusion process, such as PEMF, have a demonstrable impact on patient care.

    I said to myself, how can this possibly happen I had just gone through all the chemotherapy and now, I have cervical cancer. I guess I just have to laugh about it because if not, it is just too much for me to handle.

    Our strategy is to focus on women to try to prevent cervical cancer in the most cost effective way. We intend to seek licensure for a broad age range.

    His range of motion is coming back nicely. He still has some muscle spasms up in the cervical area and we will continue to treat him day by day. Keith is progressing nicely at this time.

    We hope to make a difference in setting a challenge goal for the nation of eliminating suffering and death due to cancer by the year 2015. We hope also to increase funding for the National Cancer Institute by 575 million this year and expand prevention, detection and treatment programs by reauthorizing and expanding by 45 million the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program.


    Deaths from cervical cancer could drop even lower if more women routinely had a Pap test. Because cervical cancer produces no symptoms in the early stage, regular screening is extremely important.

    Because of the long history of high-quality cervical cancer screening in Canada, the benefit achieved so far may be close to the maximum. However, it might be possible to see even further reductions in both incidence and death for this cancer if all elements of an organized screening program are incorporated, which would include identifying opportunities to increase participation.

    It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind, or brain-damage (sic) baby even ten years la.

    Any backlog of tests building up while staff is being trained is well worth the wait in order to use the more sensitive liquid-based test. In addition, cervical cancer takes a long time to develop. Waiting a few weeks for results should result in no harm.



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