posts related to: Cervical cancer

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Cervical Cancer screening in pregnancy

Cervical screening is something that you may not consider when pregnant or preparing for pregnancy. We asked an expert from Jo’s Trust to help us answer some questions about the safety of cervical cancer screening during pregnancy. If I am pregnant is it safe to have a cervical smear procedure? Yes, it is perfectly safe to have…

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Baby Hope For Cervical Cancer Patients

A new treatment for cervical cancer means that sufferers may no longer left infertile.  In the early stages of the disease, women currently face hysterectomies to stop the cancer spreading and also end up losing their chance of having a baby. Specialists at London’s St Bartholomew’s and the Royal Marsden hospitals have pioneered a new…

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News: Surgery for abnormal smears could causes pregnancy risk

Techniques used to remove abnormal cervical cells could increase the risk of problems during pregnancy according to experts. But UK experts said women who needed treatment should go ahead, as the risk of pregnancy complications was small. Researchers from the Royal Preston Hospital, Lancashire, analysed 27 studies looking at various treatments. if a woman has…

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Vaccine has wiped out meningitis C

21st April 2008 One of the deadliest forms of meningitis has been all but wiped out, Government figures to be released today will show. The Department of Health says that there were no deaths last year from type C meningitis. Ministers will hail the statistics as evidence that a killer disease which once caused terror in schools and…

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Cervical Screening Awareness Week

As the UK’s only dedicated cervical cancer charity, Jo’s Trust, prepares for its annual Screening Awareness Week from June 8 – 14, the event takes on even more significance following in the wake of TV celebrity Jade Goody’s diagnosis and tragic death from the disease at the age of 27.   CERVICAL CANCER CHARITY PREPARES…

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