Women's Health

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.

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.

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.

Healio provided comprehensive coverage of this year’s San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

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.

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.

Supportive therapies are necessary to help ensure patients adhere to aromatase inhibitor treatment, according to study results presented at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Nivolumab plus ipilimumab induced durable responses among a small cohort of women with high tumor mutational burden metastatic HER2-negative breast cancer, according to study results presented at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Aromatase inhibitors may reduce breast cancer recurrence compared with tamoxifen for certain postmenopausal women with breast cancer, according to study results presented at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Race did not significantly predict response to treatment outcomes among women with high-risk breast cancer, according to study results presented at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.