Playing Music Helps Women Relax During Colposcopy

If a cervical smear test reveals abnormal cells the woman will be offered colposcopy, a technique that involves a doctor studying the cervix with a special microscope. Many women find the whole procedure highly stressful and have particularly high levels of anxiety before and during colposcopy. ...

Teens May Not Benefit from Pap Tests

...ond report found no difference in outcome between young women who underwent colposcopy and had loop excision, which is surgery to remove abnormal cells, and those...ery. And the third report, a cost-benefit analysis, found that immediate colposcopy was not more cost-effective than what the researchers called watchful wait...

New Evidence Supports HPV Vaccine

...women must be emphasized, HPV vaccination has the potential to substantially reduce the incidence of cervical cancer and precancer, and the numbers of colposcopy referrals and cervical excision procedures," concluded Dr. Jorma Paavonen, of the University of Helsinki in Finland, and colleagues. The study, whi...

Women's Integrative Health Encinitas OB/GYN Selects LUMA Cervical Imaging System

...effective method, that when used as an adjunct to colposcopy, has been demonstrated to uncover at least 26% more high-grade pre-cancerous disease than colposcopy alone. SpectraScience has filed for 60 patents worldwide on its WavSTAT(R) Optical Biopsy System and LUMA Cervical Cancer Imaging System that ar...

SpectraScience Receives FDA Clearance for Manufacturing Facility

... effective method, that when used as an adjunct to colposcopy, has been demonstrated to uncover at least 26% more high-grade precancerous disease than colposcopy alone. SpectraScience CEO Jim Hitchin commented, "This approval is key for us to begin manufacturing the LUMA Systems here in our San Diego faci...

LUMA Cervical Imaging System Installed in Edina at Minnesota Gynecology

... effective method, that when used as an adjunct to colposcopy, has been demonstrated to uncover at least 26% more high-grade precancerous disease than colposcopy alone. SpectraScience CEO Jim Hitchin commented, "We are pleased to have placed our LUMA System at Minnesota Gynecology and Surgery. This placem...

SpectraScience Awarded U.S. Patent 7,469,160 for Its Unique Methods and Apparatus for Evaluating Image Focus

...stem to detect close to 30% more ASCUS/LSIL cervical cancer precursors than colposcopy alone, providing clinicians with a valuable tool in the fight against cervi...-scale National Cancer Institute-sponsored clinical trial demonstrated that colposcopy failed to detect 33% of high-grade precancerous lesions in women referred w...

Model highlights benefits and risks of cervical cancer screening methods

...nce between the strategy offering the least and most frequent referrals for colposcopy (a procedure in which physicians look directly at the cervix through a micr...ed cytologic and HPV testing would lead to an estimated 1,795 referrals for colposcopy and other follow-up procedures (1,788 of them excessive, or not associated ...

Research shows HPV testing offers women protection for twice as long as smear testing

...the Open-Exeter system. Women with a smear history indicating the need for colposcopy a more thorough examination of the cervix were investigated further to determine whether the colposcopy and biopsy were performed, and what the resultant outcome was. Passive fo...

SpectraScience Acquires Luma Imaging Corporation

...A(TM) detects significantly more high-grade cervical cancer precursors than colposcopy alone. Clinical trials comprised of over 3,000 women have demonstrated LUMA...abnormalities on Pap tests. LUMA(TM) received FDA approval as an adjunct to colposcopy in March 2006. The acquisition was accounted for as an exchange of the sha...

Colposcopy in Medical Technology

Landmark Study for GSK's Cervical Cancer Vaccine Published in The Lancet

...iated with 12 non-vaccine cancer-causing HPV types lies between 37 percent and 54 percent The vaccine also substantially reduced the number of colposcopy referral and cervical excision procedures in both the TVC and TVC-naive cohorts The efficacy and safety results from the interim analysis of ...

Hologic Releases the Results of the Cervista(TM) HPV Clinical Trials

...tant findings were Negative Predictive Values for 99.5% for CIN3 and 97.7% for CIN2+. Recent consensus guidelines released by the American Society for colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP) in 2007 stated that "...it would be reasonable to utilize genotyping in cytology negative, HPV-positive women in the sa...

CERVARIX(R) Shown to Provide Longest Duration of Sustained Neutralizing Antibodies to Date

...he presence of human papillomavirus DNA by PCR using cervical samples and annual cervical cytology evaluations were performed. Women were referred for colposcopy following protocol guidelines. Women were also assessed for long-term immunogenicity and safety. About cervical cancer and its progression Approxi...

Cervarix, GSK Cervical Cancer Candidate Vaccine, Demonstrates 100 Percent Protection Against Precancerous Lesions Caused By Cancer-Causing Human Papillomavirus Types 16 & 18 for More Than Five Years

...he presence of human papillomavirus DNA by PCR using cervical samples and annual cervical cytology evaluations were performed. Women were referred for colposcopy following protocol guidelines. Women were also assessed for long-term immunogenicity and safety. About cervical cancer and its progression Approxi...

New England Journal of Medicine Publishes New Data on Gardasil, Merck's Cervical Cancer Vaccine

...of baseline HPV status at Day 1). Case counting started at 1 Month Postdose 1. ***Includes 2 subjects (1 in each vaccination group) who underwent colposcopy for reasons other than an abnormal Pap and 1 placebo subject with missing serology/PCR data at day 1. +Includes 1 subject with missing serology/PCR...

Data Published in The Lancet Show Gardasil was 100 Percent Effective in Preventing High-Grade Vulvar and Vaginal Lesions Caused by HPV Types 16 and 18

...of baseline HPV status at Day 1). Case counting started at 1 Month Postdose 1. ***Includes 2 subjects (1 in each vaccination group) who underwent colposcopy for reasons other than an abnormal Pap and 1 placebo subject with missing serology/PCR data at day 1. +Includes 1 subject with missing serology/PCR...

Testing for Human Papillomavirus

... testing, and though less specific, HPV-positive women with negative or borderline cytology can be monitored by repeat testing, thereby reducing total colposcopy referrals while maintaining improved detection of precancerous lesions. Because of the low cancer risk and unknown natural history of HPV infection i...

Colposcopy in Medical Definition

Medical procedure

... Electrooculography Electroretinography Evoked potential Endoscopy Colonoscopy Gastroscopy Cystoscopy Sigmoidoscopy colposcopy Otoscopy Ophthalmoscopy Videoendoscopy Virtual colonoscopy Laparoscopy Esophageal motility study Medical imaging A...

Colposcopy in Medical Dictionary

Colposcopy

American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology. Jo's Trust Details about what colposcopy involves from the UK's leading cervical ... Information on the gynecological procedure done to detect abnormalities in vaginal walls or cervix. More about Colposcopy : Purpose...

Vagina

...volving insertion of the penis into the vagina ... in which the male enters the woman's vagina from behind. ... Information for women about colposcopy from the American Academy of Family ... Your doctor inserts a speculum into your vagina and opens it slightly so he or ... Current and accura...

Pap smear

... smear ? ... The Pap smear is done as part of a gynecological exam. ... If the Pap smear shows minor cell changes or abnormalities, a colposcopy ... Cancer of the cervix (cervical cancer) is the second most common cause of cancer ... A Pap smear is a microscopic examination of cell...

Colposcopy in Biological News

New test for most virulent HPV strains under study

...suggesting maybe that is the way we should go,?he says. In fact, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and American Society for colposcopy and Cervical Pathology already recommend HPV testing in all women over 30. Women under 30 are another matter. Ages 15 to 25 are peak sexual acti...

Colposcopy in Biological Technology

Helix Biopharma announces addition of University of Arizona professor Kenneth Hatch as new medical advisor

...nt of the American Society of Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology. Dr. Hatch has also presided as secretary-treasurer of the International Federation of colposcopy and Cervical Pathology, and as president of the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists. About Helix BioPharma Corp. Helix BioPharma Corp. is a biopharma...