4th World Conference on Breast and Cervical Cancer

Cervical Health Awareness Important for All: Trans Men and Genderqueer/Gender Nonconforming People Transgender is a term for a diverse group of people, for example, Trans- women (male-to-female) and Trans-men (female-to-male), genderqueer people, and numerous others—whose sexual orientation personality or articulation varies from societal desires of how they should look, act, or distinguish in light of the sex they were assigned at birth. Transgender and other gender minority individuals are regularly the objectives of segregation and harassment that can prompt negative wellbeing results. Transgender individuals face various health disparities and in addition shame, segregation, and absence of access to quality care. Some wellbeing aberrations incorporate an expanded danger of HIV contamination, particularly among transgender ladies of color, and lower probability of preventive malignancy screenings in transgender men . Anyone with a cervix can contract cervical c...

  DCIS – The Controversial Breast Cancer Everyone has heard of  Breast Cancer . Those 2 words are enough to scare any of us, men or women, as we all know someone who has had a fight with this disease. With this disease everyone always thinks about lumps being detected, and then being removed followed by further treatment. How many of you have heard about  Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS) ? If you have heard about it, how much do you really know? DCIS is a much debated subject amongst the specialists, and the definition and treatment varies from consultant to consultant as well from country to country. There is a considerable lot of data on the web, however again a great deal of this fluctuates. Definition of DCIS DCIS is described in the UK as a non-invasive breast cancer. In other words, there are cancer cells present, but they are enclosed within the milk ducts and haven’t become invasive (i.e. a tumour), therefore are ‘in situ’. In the USA man...

Today Let's Talk About Sex, Fertility, and Intimacy after Cancer Treatment   In the United States, 38.5% of men and women will receive a cancer diagnosis at some point. Many of these patients will suffer in silence with sexual and fertility problems because of the stigma associated with them. Patients wait for their trusted healthcare professionals to bring up the subject, which often doesn’t happen. A study found that 62% of internists working with patients with cancer never or rarely address sexual issues.   Patients need to know that it is OK to ask about and address sexual health issues.  Findings from several studies show that sexual issues are common among many patients. For instance, investigators determined that sexual dysfunction was among the top 3 physical concerns reported by 43% of the men and women with cancer. Adverse, Effects Experienced by Patients: Cancer treatment can affect sex and intimacy in terms of functional changes, physical d...

Vaccines save lives: Your Kids needs to be vaccinated for cervical cancer . Here is why…. When it comes to your kids, you are always planning, Healthy dinners. Safe activities. One plan that’s easy to make could have a tremendous benefit, even saving a life. That’s planning to have preteens vaccinated against HPV, the leading cause of cervical and anal cancers. HPV is short for human papillomavirus . Almost 20 million people in the United States, most of them are teens and early 20s, are infected with HPV. Not only does HPV cause almost all cervical cancers in women, it’s also responsible for other types of cancer.  HPV causes mouth and throat cancer, as well as anal cancer in both women and men. HPV can cause cancers of the vulva and vagina in women, and cancer of the penis in men. In the United States each year, there are nearly 18,000 women and 7,000 men affected by HPV-related cancers. Most of the HPV infections that cause these cancers could be prevented with v...