Cervical Cancer: Genomics and Prevention

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Cervical Cancer: Genomics and Prevention

CDC information: January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month - No woman should die of cervical cancer. The most important thing you can do to help prevent cervical cancer is to get screened regularly starting at age 21.

CDC Fact Sheet on Cervical Cancer  [PDF 873.72 KB]

January is Cervical Health Awareness Month, Dana Sparks, Mayo Clinic, January 2015

Use of primary high-risk human papillomavirus testing for cervical cancer screening: Interim clinical guidance.
Huh WK, et al. Obstet Gynecol. 2015 Jan 7

NCI paper: Cancer-associated infectious agents and epigenetic regulation. 
Vedham V, Verma M. Methods Mol Biol. 2015;1238:333-54

TGFβ receptor 1: An immune susceptibility gene in HPV-associated cancer. 
Levovitz C, et al. Cancer Res. 2014 Dec 1;74(23):6833-44

A comprehensive review of dysregulated miRNAs involved in cervical cancer. 
Sharma G, et al. Curr Genomics. 2014 Aug;15(4):310-23

Genome-wide profiling of HPV integration in cervical cancer identifies clustered genomic hot spots and a potential microhomology-mediated integration mechanism 
Zheng Hu et al. Nature Genetics, January 12, 2015

Specialists split over HPV test's role in cancer screening, by Rob Stein, NPR, Jan 8

Check out our Cervical Cancer update page for additional information and links