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WILX News 10 Jayson Field, M.D. , gynecologic oncologist at MSU Health Care, Inc. and Karmanos Cancer Institute at McLaren Greater Lansing and member of the Gynecologic Oncology Multidisciplinary Team , joins WILX’s Studio 10 to explain the importance of routine cervical cancer screenings to catch pre-cancer and early-stage disease, and the HPV vaccine. Watch here .
Despite the fact that cervical cancer is one of the few gynecologic (GYN) cancers that is preventable through vaccination and for which screening is available to catch pre-cancer before it develops into cancer, each year in the United States, about 11,500 cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed according to the Centers for Disease Control. The main cause of cervical cancer is the human papillomavirus (HPV) . “HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease,” said Jayson Field, MD , gynecologic oncolo...
"Often the signs and symptoms of gynecologic cancers, such as ovarian cancer, for example, may be common symptoms people have from time to time." September is gynecologic cancer awareness month, a nationwide effort to educate women about screening and prevention. Gynecologic cancers start in a women’s reproductive organs and include five main types: cervical , endometrial , ovarian , vaginal, and vulvar cancer . Each gynecologic cancer can have different signs and symptoms and have of...