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Download applications (.PDF format) for competing grants / non-competing grants NCI-ASCO Cancer Foundation Clinical Investigator Team Leadership Award It is the intent of the Cancer Clinical Investigator Team Leadership Award to support mid-level ...More…

Los virus del papiloma humano y el cáncer

National Cancer Institute — Las infecciones genitales por VPH son muy comunes y se transmiten sexualmente. Entre los más de 100 tipos de VPH, más de 30 pueden transmitirse de una persona a otra por medio de contacto sexual. Aunque los VPH son transmitidos generalmente por ...More…

Cáncer ovárico: preguntas y respuestas

National Cancer Institute — El cáncer ovárico es el cáncer que se origina en los ovarios, el par de órganos reproductores femeninos localizados en la pelvis. Los ovarios tienen dos funciones: producir óvulos y hormonas femeninas (químicos que controlan la manera en que ...More…

Cáncer metastático - National Cancer Institute

National Cancer Institute — El cáncer se presenta cuando las células se hacen anormales y crecen sin control (vea la pregunta 1). El lugar donde se inició el cáncer se denomina cáncer primario o tumor primario (vea la pregunta 2). El cáncer metastático se presenta cuando ...More…

Tumor primario (T)

National Cancer Institute — La etapa o estadio describe la extensión o gravedad del cáncer que aqueja a un individuo. El conocer la etapa de la enfermedad ayuda al médico a planear el tratamiento de una persona y a estimar el pronóstico (vea la pregunta 1). Los sistemas de ...More…

What You Need To Know About Cervical Cancer

National Cancer Institute — This booklet is only about invasive cervical cancer. It's not about Instead of this booklet, women with abnormal cervical cells only on the surface may want to read the NCI booklet . Every year in the United States, about 11,000 women learn they ...More…

Recent Studies Regarding HPV and Cervical Cancer

National Cancer Institute — Twenty organizations-including the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP), the American Cancer Society, and the National Cancer Institute (NCI)-will participate in a conference in September 2005 to discuss the use of HPV ...More…

DES: Questions and Answers

National Cancer Institute — DES (diethylstilbestrol) is a synthetic form of estrogen, a female hormone. It was prescribed between 1938 and 1971 to help women with certain complications of pregnancy (1). Use of DES declined following studies in the 1950s that showed it was ...More…

Cryosurgery in Cancer Treatment: Questions and Answers

National Cancer Institute — Cryosurgery (also called cryotherapy) is the use of extreme cold produced by liquid nitrogen (or argon gas) to destroy abnormal tissue. Cryosurgery is used to treat external tumors, such as those on the skin. For external tumors, liquid nitrogen ...More…

Oral Contraceptives and Cancer Risk: Questions and Answers

National Cancer Institute — Oral contraceptives (OCs) first became available to American women in the early 1960s. The convenience, effectiveness, and reversibility of action of birth control pills (popularly known as "the pill") have made them the most popular form of ...More…

New Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines

National Institutes of Health (Cancer) — The National Cancer Institute (NCI) supports new guidelines on cervical cancer screening released today by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). The new guidelines, similar to ones published by the American Cancer Society in November, ...More…

What are genital warts?

National Cancer Institute — Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are a group of more than 100 related viruses. They are called papillomaviruses because certain types may cause warts, or papillomas, which are benign (noncancerous) tumors. The HPVs that cause the common warts which ...More…