Women's Health
Dual checkpoint blockade shows promising activity in advanced cervical cancer
Balstilimab plus zalifrelimab demonstrated promising and durable activity among women with recurrent and/or metastatic cervical cancer who relapsed after platinum-based therapy, according to a phase 2 study in Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Q&A: HRSA updates preventive care guidelines for women, kids
Updates to the Affordable Care Act preventive health care guidelines will require coverage of certain screening and preventive measures for women and children, HHS said.
Pandemic may increase burden of allostatic load on women during postpartum year
Women who viewed themselves as lower in socioeconomic status experienced a higher allostatic load 1 year after giving birth, which may lead to worse health outcomes in the future, according to findings published in Health Psychology.
FDA grants priority review to Enhertu for breast cancer subset
The FDA granted priority review to fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki for treatment of certain patients with advanced breast cancer.
Importance of HPV vaccination ‘impossible to overstate’
In the first installment of a four-video series timed to Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, Maurie Markman, MD, spoke with Healio about the importance of HPV vaccination.
Black women face more barriers to genetic counseling, testing, breast oncologists say
A survey of physicians showed most believe Black women face more barriers to genetic counseling and testing for breast cancer than white women, according to a study published in Journal of Clinical Oncology.
New NASA radiation exposure limit would bring equality to female, male astronauts
A committee of experts from science, medicine and academia, among other fields, has recommended NASA proceed with a proposal for a universal, career-long radiation dose limit for all astronauts.
10 important studies you may have missed from San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
Breast cancer overdiagnoses in U.S. common, inaccurately reported
One in seven U.S. women will be overdiagnosed with breast cancer during their lifetimes, according to study results presented at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
Obesity plus genetic predisposition exacerbates risk for gout in women
Although excess adiposity and genetic predisposition are individually strongly linked to greater gout risk, both combined result in a higher risk than the sum of each, especially in women, according to data.