25/02/2010 | Nearly 1,500 women will have ovarian cancer by 2015 and four Australian women will be diagnosed with the disease each day over the next five years, the latest AIHW report shows.
30/10/2009 | Liquid-based cytology does not perform better than conventional Pap tests in the detection of cervical cancers, the largest high-quality comparison of the two methods finds.
30/10/2009 | An Australian study has highlighted the limitations of intraperitoneal drug delivery in ovarian cancer, with the majority of patients demonstrating multiple regions of faint or absent uptake on scintigraphic peritoneography imaging.
20/09/2009 | A tool that is able to calculate a woman’s risk of developing cervical pre-cancer could be ready by the end of 2010, according to American cancer experts.
14/07/2009 | Menopausal women who have taken hormone therapy have a 38% higher risk of developing ovarian cancer, an international study has found.
10/07/2009 | MRI and PET should be used to develop a new staging system for cervical cancer and explored as an alternative to FIGO staging, Australian radiologists say.
08/07/2009 | The human papillomavirus-16/18 AS04-advjuanted vaccine offers strong protection against cervical intraepithelial neoplasia 2+, a final analysis of the Papilloma Trial against Cancer In young Adults shows.
30/04/2009 | Women over 50 with a history of negative Pap smears have the same risk of cervical cancer as young women, research supporting the Australian cervical screening strategy shows.
19/03/2009 | Results from the largest ovarian cancer screening trial to date suggest that transvaginal ultrasound and a multimodal approach that includes both CA125 testing and ultrasound are both effective in detecting early-stage disease.
12/02/2009 |
A large cohort study has found no convincing association between fertility drugs and ovarian cancer.