JANUARY IS CERVICAL CANCER AWARENESS MONTH. WHAT CAUSES CERVICAL CANCER AND HOW DO WOMEN GET IT? Almost all cervical cancer is caused by Human Papilloma Virus or HPV. HPV is an extremely common virus that is passed from person to person through sexual contact. Over 90 million people in the US have been exposed to […]

WHAT CAUSES CERVICAL CANCER? Cervical cells can become abnormal and then if not addressed become cancerous. Also HPV, human papillomavirus, is the leading cause of cervical cancer, and if detected on a PAP smear should be addressed with your gynecologist  CAN IT BE PREVENTED? Cervical cancer can be prevented by going to get your annual […]

  Tia D. Olds, MD, is a radiation oncologist at New York Oncology Hematology, a practice in The US Oncology Network, in Albany, NY. She earned her medical degree from Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, interning at Saint Vincent’s Medical Center in Staten Island, NY, and serving her residency in radiation oncology at SUNY […]

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Provocative new research might help explain why black women are so much more likely than whites to develop and die from cervical cancer: They seem to have more trouble clearing HPV, the virus that causes the disease. Doctors have long thought that less access to screening and follow-up health care were the reasons black women […]