Gynecologic Cancer News

Undergoing more cervical cancer screenings was associated with an increased risk for preterm birth among women aged 18 to 24 years, especially among those with hypertension or diabetes, researchers reported.

Selinexor maintenance after systemic therapy extended median PFS more than four times longer than placebo for women with advanced or recurrent TP53 wild-type endometrial cancer, according to phase 3 study results.

As the number of young cancer survivors continues to increase, so do the myriad of survivorship issues throughout their life span, including reproductive health concerns.

Wastage from dose reduction or discontinuation of the most common oral anticancer drugs costs a mean of $4,290 per patient, results of a retrospective study showed.

Compared with simple or no surgery, hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy was associated with reduced risks for ovarian and breast cancer for some women, but increased risks for colorectal cancer and CVD, researchers reported.

The addition of pembrolizumab to concurrent chemoradiotherapy conferred a statistically significant and clinically meaningful increase in PFS among women with newly diagnosed high-risk locally advanced cervical cancer, topline data showed.

One dose of the 9-valent HPV vaccine generated a sustained immune response against two prominent cancer-causing types of the virus for up to 2 years, according study findings published in Pediatrics.

Margaret Liang, MD, MSPHM, has been appointed director of the gynecologic oncology fellowship program for Cedars-Sinai Cancer Center.

Certain occupations — including accountancy, hairdressing, sales and sewing — may be associated with increased risk for ovarian cancer, according to study results published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Among women with stress urinary incontinence and endometrial intraepithelial neoplasia or early-stage cancer, concomitant surgeries for both conditions did not improve quality of life compared with cancer surgery alone, researchers reported.