Starting HAART With High CD4 Counts Reduces Incidence of Squamous Cell Anal Cancer: Presented at CROI
Doctor's Guide
DGDispatch
By Ed Susman
SAN FRANCISCO -- February 22, 2010 -- Patients with HIV who begin antiretroviral therapy before their CD4-positive cell counts drop below 200 cells/mm3 appear to have significantly reduced risk of developing squamous cell cancer of the anus, researchers said here at the 17th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic...
Canadian women have a choice of two vaccines against HPV, the family of viruses that can cause cervical cancer, now that Health Canada has approved GlaxoSmithKline's vaccine, Cervarix.
The vaccine, which is expected to be available by the end of the month, will compete against Gardasil, a product of Merck Canada, which has been on the Canadian market since 2006.
Medical News Today
Article Date: 09 Oct 2009 - 0:00 PDT
New research published on bmj.com today reports that if boys were included in human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programs of pre-adolescent girls, it would not be cost-effective. It is probable that the costs of vaccinating boys will outweigh the added health benefits.
It has been consistently exposed in prior studies that HPV vaccination of pre-adolescent (12 year-old) girls provides good value for money....
Possible reasons for increased rates explored by researchers
U.S.News & World Report
Posted September 30, 2009
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Non-AIDS-related cancers such as anal and lung cancer have become more common among HIV patients than among people without HIV since antiretroviral therapies were introduced in the mid-1990s to treat people with the virus, U.S. researchers say.
Because of their weakened immune system, AIDS patients...
National Cancer Institute
September 22, 2009 • Volume 6 / Number 18
Few people associate infection with cancer, but close to one-fifth of all cancers in the world are caused by infectious agents, including viruses, bacteria, and other microbes. In developing countries, the number is higher—about one in four—while in industrialized countries, such as the United States, it is about one in 12.
Infectious agents that can cause cancer are extremely common, infecting millions...
