#cervical-cancer

#cervical-cancer

Patients with incurable cervical cancer are to be offered a new treatment which could give them more time with their loved ones.Keytruda, an immunotherapy drug manufactured by Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD), is the first new treatment in 14 years approved to treat advanced cervical cancer.It is expected that over the next three years around 400 patients will benefit from the treatment, also known as pembrolizumab.

A nurse manager who has been given just months to live says bungling medics dismissed her cancer symptoms as side-effects of having the Covid jab.Katie Pritchard, 37, is having to crowdfund 200,000 for private treatment after she was twice misdiagnosed before finding out she had cervical cancer.The mother-of-two went to her GP after finding a lump but was told there was nothing to worry about and her symptoms may have been down to the Pfizer vaccine.

A young mother is urging women to go for their smear test when called after an analysis found less than two-thirds of women in the capital were up to date with their screening.Gemma Patten, 37, from Barnet in north London, had surgery to remove part of her cervix and vagina, as well as chemotherapy, after being diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2016.

Only after having this could I move on, she said.Holly McComish was just 25 years old when she had a stroke that almost killed her.Doctors at the hospital told her to immediately stop taking the contraceptive pill she had been prescribed two months earlier.Having been prescribed the pill over the phone and not even been given a pamphlet laying out the risks and side effects associated with taking it, Ms McComish said she was unaware of the pill's more serious potential effects.

New research has found that all hormonal contraceptives "carry a small increased risk of breast cancer," The Guardian reports.Previously only the combined pill was linked to an increased risk of developing breast and cervical cancer, according to Cancer Research UK, but now this also contributes to progestogen-only contraceptives (also known as the mini pill).

Scotland has become the the first part of the UK to make a new treatment for women with advanced cervical cancer available on the NHS.The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has approved the use of the drug pembrolizumab which is also known as Keytruda to treat those patients with persistent or recurrent cervical cancer, or in cases where the disease has spread.

AUSTIN, Texas The rate of people dying from cancer in the U.S. has declined over the past three decades, according to a new report from the American Cancer Society.The U.S. cancer death rate has fallen 33% since 1991, and Texas is also seeing this downward trend."As the population of Texas grows, we are seeing more cancer diagnoses and more deaths," said Dr. Mammen Sam, chair of the Texas Medical Association Committee on Cancer.

A sick and twisted former doctor who committed 115 sexual offences against teenage girls and women has been handed two more life sentences and told by a judge that he remains a danger to women.Manish Shah, 53, described as the master of deception, abused his position of trust to carry out the offences on 28 women and girls as young as 15.

Coronation Street's Daniel Osbourne and Daisy Midgeley are set for a romantic Christmas after a cancer scare leads to a surprise proposal.The health scare for Daisy, played by Charlotte Jordan, becomes the latest in a series of ups and downs for the barmaid and Daniel, actor Rob Mallard, whose ex-wife Sinead died from cervical cancer.

After experiencing unusual, unexplained bleeding and two rounds of abnormal Pap tests, Wendy Yen is anxiously awaiting her latest results.But the 45-year-old Toronto resident learned it could be several months before she finds out, due to backlogs and processing delays at many Canadian laboratories.