Vulvar cancer is a cancer of the vulva, the outer portion of the female genitals. It most commonly affects the labia majora. Less often, the labia minora...
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prevented by vulvovaginal health maintenance. Vulvar cancer accounts for about 5% of all gynecological cancers and typically affects women in later life....
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benign or malignant (vulvar cancer). Vulvar neoplasms are divided into cystic or solid lesions and other mixed types. Vulvar cancers are those malignant...
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Gynecologic oncology (redirect from Cancers of the female reproductive organs)
focuses on cancers of the female reproductive system, including ovarian cancer, uterine cancer, vaginal cancer, cervical cancer, and vulvar cancer. As specialists...
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is usually performed as a last resort in certain cases of cancer, vulvar dysplasia, vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia, or as part of female genital mutilation...
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vaginal cancer, cervical cancer, and vulvar cancer. Gynecological cancers comprise 10-15% of women's cancers, mainly affecting women past reproductive...
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Vulva (redirect from Vulvar diseases)
has a direct impact on the medical treatment of vulvar melanomas. Signs and symptoms of vulvar cancer can include: itching, or bleeding; skin changes...
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major cause of cervical cancer, vulvar cancer, vaginal cancer, penis cancer, anal cancer, and HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancers. Most viral warts are caused...
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Lichen sclerosus (redirect from Vulvar lichen sclerosus)
cell carcinoma. In women, it has been reported that 33.6 times higher vulvar cancer risk is associated with LS. A study in men reported that "The reported...
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treat basal cell skin cancer and the very early stages of others like cervical, penile, vaginal, vulvar, and non-small cell lung cancer. It is often combined...
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transitional cell cancer(urothelial carcinoma) Urethral cancer Uterine sarcoma Vaginal cancer Vulvar cancer Wilms tumor (nephroblastoma) Esophageal cancer Head and...
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P16 (section Biomarker for cancer types)
melanoma, oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma, cervical cancer, vulvar cancer and esophageal cancer. p16 was discovered in 1993. It is a protein with 148...
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in Denmark. Male breast cancer Testicular cancer Urethral cancer Vulvar cancer "Penile Cancer Factsheet" (PDF). Global Cancer Observatory. Retrieved 7...
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Vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia (VIN) refers to particular changes that can occur in the skin that covers the vulva. VIN is an intraepithelial neoplasia...
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cervical cancer and some forms of anal cancer, vaginal cancer, vulvar cancer, penile cancer, rectal cancer, and oropharyngeal cancer. Men with cancer are twice...
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HPV vaccine (redirect from Vaccine against cervical cancer)
cervical cancer. It is estimated that HPV vaccines may prevent 70% of cervical cancer, 80% of anal cancer, 60% of vaginal cancer, 40% of vulvar cancer, and...
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gynecological cancers and treats cervical cancer, fallopian tube cancer, uterine (endometrial) cancer, vaginal cancer, ovarian cancer, vulvar cancer, gynecologic...
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anal cancer and pre-cancerous lesions in males and females aged 9 to 26 years. The vaccine has been used before to help prevent cervical, vulvar, and...
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Oncovirus (redirect from Virus cancer link)
major cause of cervical cancer, vulvar cancer, vaginal cancer, penis cancer, anal cancer, and HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancers. There are nearly 200 distinct...
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Endometrial Cancer Vaginal Cancer Vulvar Cancer Roswell Park offers specialized treatments, services and therapies to treat cancer, as well as services to support...
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Gynecologic Oncology Group (category Cancer organizations based in the United States)
gynecologic cancers, such as ovarian cancer, cervical cancer, endometrial cancer, vulvar cancer, and vaginal cancer. The GOG was founded in 1970 by a group of gynecologic...
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Previous history of cervical cancer Smoking Chronic vulvar itching or burning There are two primary types of vaginal cancer: squamous-cell carcinoma and...
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Gardasil (category Cancer vaccines)
an estimated 70% of cervical cancers, and are responsible for most HPV-induced anal, vulvar, vaginal, and penile cancer cases. HPV types 6 and 11 cause...
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removed. Removal is sometimes recommended in those older than 40 to ensure cancer is not present. Antibiotics are not generally needed to treat a Bartholin's...
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Vaginal melanoma (section Other cancers)
Retrieved February 8, 2018. Wohlmuth C, Wohlmuth-Wieser I (December 2019). "Vulvar malignancies: an interdisciplinary perspective". Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen...
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of vulvar cancer." A Danish study found the reverse, that alcohol consumption is significantly associated with VV-SCCvagina and VV-SCCvulva cancer. A...
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Johanna's Law (redirect from Gynecologic Cancer Education and Awareness Act of 2005)
gynecologic cancer, which include ovarian, uterine/endometrial, cervical, vaginal, and vulvar cancers and the risk factors and symptoms. Often, these cancers are...
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Bartholin's gland (redirect from Bartholin's gland cancer)
Bartholin gland carcinoma is a rare malignancy that occurs in 1% of vulvar cancers. This may be due to the presence of three different types of epithelial...
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Transcription factor Jun (section Vulvar cancer)
levels of c-Jun tested higher in Vulvar cancer samples when compared with those of normal skin and preneoplastic vulvar lesions, thus underscoring a cross-link...
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Dysplasia (redirect from Vulvar dysplasia)
type.[citation needed] Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are a group of cancers in which immature blood cells in the bone marrow do not mature and therefore...
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