They now report that if a woman has genital herpes in addition to HPV, her risk of cervical cancer nearly doubles. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States ...

Herpes Simplex virus Type-2 (HSV-2) increases the risk of HIV-1 acquisition, yet the mechanism for this viral pathogen to regulate the susceptibility of the cervicovaginal mucosa to HIV-1 is ...

a long-term association between oral contraceptives and cervical lesions, the researchers warned. * Each new sexual partner per month increased a woman’s risk of HPV infection by 10 fold - four new ...

I am an experienced colposcopist and teach in the areas of human papillomavirus (HPV), cervical cancer prevention, and colposcopy. I am always happy to see articles that update clinicians on the ...

"Cervix Inspection Catches More Lesions Than Pap Smear Alone." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 4 January 2005. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2005 / 01 / 050104114021.htm>.

Regular monitoring ("active surveillance") rather than immediate treatment is justified for moderate cervical lesions - abnormal cells on the surface of the cervix, often called cervical intra ...

High-grade cervical lesions, termed CIN2/3, occur most often in women 40 or younger, according to Trimble, a member of Johns Hopkins' Kelly Gynecologic Oncology Service and Kimmel Cancer Center.

Q: My doctor just told me that I have herpes. I don’t know if I got it from my last boyfriend or the one-night stand I had after we broke up. I'm so upset, I feel like I never want to have sex ...

Source Reference: Eerkens AL, et al "Vvax001, a therapeutic vaccine for patients with HPV16-positive high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia: a phase II trial" Clin Cancer Res 2025; DOI: 10. ...

A therapeutic vaccine targeting human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) induced regression in high-grade precancerous cervical lesions, according to the results from a Phase II clinical trial ...