Every two minutes, a woman dies from cervical cancer somewhere in the world, according to the United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO). The disease ranks as the fourth most common female ...

Pap test screening. According to the Canadian Cancer Society, incidence rates have declined two per cent per year from 1995 to 2004. Still, nearly 1,400 Canadian women were diagnosed with cervical ...

Doctors are thrilled about the latest research out of the U.K. showing the remarkable efficacy of the HPV vaccine. Here's ...

We already know the vaccine against human papillomavirus, or HPV, greatly reduces infections and cases of cervical cancer, and now we have the first evidence it prevents deaths too ...

The HPV vaccine has reduced the risk of cervical cancer death before age 30 to effectively zero in the United Kingdom.

A tiny parasite may be wreaking havoc below the belt — even long after it’s gone. A new study found that an “often-overlooked” parasitic infection, already linked to bladder cancer, could also trigger ...

BBC health journalists answer key questions as research suggests the HPV vaccine has prevented 200 deaths from cervical cancer in England.

Yes, cervical cancer is one of the most common cancers linked to HPV. HPV is a common sexually transmitted infection (STI) that most people contract at some point in life. Your body will usually get ...

The study estimates that children vaccinated at 12-13 years old face a near-zero risk of dying from the disease before ...

A research study recently published in the Lancet reported that girls who received the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine at ...

People with HIV are 59 times as likely to develop anal cancer than other people, according to the study of more than 350,000 ...

Public health has been waiting two decades1,2 for signs that human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination prevents deaths, not only precancerous lesions and cancer. Studies in countries where HPV ...