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Cervical Cancer Prevention Week 21-27 January 2019


Every year in the UK, around 3,000 women will be diagnosed with cervical cancer. Cervical cancer is the most common cancer in women aged 35 and under.
Cervical cancer is not thought to be hereditary. In 99.7% of cases, cervical cancers are caused by persistent infections with a virus called high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV). HPV is a very common virus transmitted through skin to skin contact in the genital area. Around four out of five sexually active adults (80%) will be infected with some type of HPV in their lives. However, for the majority of women this will not result in cervical cancer. While HPV infection is common, cervical cancer is rare.
The goal for the 2019 Cervical Cancer Prevention Week is to get as many people as possible to know how they can reduce their risk of the disease and to educate others.
For more information surrounding cervical cancer please visit the NHS Website and Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust websites:
RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES
For anyone studying the importance of improving both the awareness and knowledge of and supporting those who suffer from cervical cancer, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items as well as information on materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.
BOOKS
  • Cervical screening / Joan Austoker Ann McPherson; 1992 2nd edition [Oxford: Oxford University Press]
  • Taking cervical smears / British Society for Clinical Cytology Penny Craddock, 2003 3rd edition, rev. and enlarged [Uxbridge: British Society for Clinical Cytology]
  • Clinical gynecology / Eric J Bieber; J. S Sanfilippo; Ira R. Horowitz; Mahmood Shafi, 2015 2nd edition [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press]

JOURNALS
  • Journal of Adolescent Health, New York, NY : Elsevier Science Inc. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2013 onwards & NHS ejournal 2007 onwards].
  • Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Amsterdam: Elsevier [Available in print 1999-2010 & as a NHS ejournal 2007 onwards].
  • Social Science & Medicine, Exeter : Elsevier Science [Available as a Keele ejournal 2013 onwards].
  • Cancer Journal, Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2000 - 2007].
  • Clinical ovarian & other gynecologic cancer, New York : Elsevier Inc. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2012 - 2015 & NHS ejournal 2008 onwards with 1 year embargo].
  • British journal of cancer, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Nature Pub. Group [Available in print 2004 - 2011 & as a NHS ejournal 1947 with 1 year embargo].
  • European Journal of Cancer, Oxford, England : Blackwell Science ; Burlington, Mass. : Made available by Health Gate Data Corp. [Available in print 1995 – 2011, as a Keele ejournal 1007 onwards & as a NHS ejournal 2007 onwards].

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/
JOURNAL ARTICLES
  • Webster, Molly ; Kumar, Vikram Sheel, “Picturing cervical cancer”, Clinical Chemistry, 2014, Vol.60(1), pp.277-279. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Foxx, Alexandra M. ; Zhu, Yuwei ; Mitchel, Edward, “Cervical Cancer Screening and Follow-Up Procedures in Women Age <21 Years Following New Screening Guidelines”, Journal of Adolescent Health, 2018, Vol.62(2), pp.170-175. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Viens, Laura J. ; Clouston, Sean ; Messina, Catherine R., “Women's autonomy and cervical cancer screening in the Lesotho Demographic and Health Survey 2009”, Social Science & Medicine, 2016, Vol.150, pp.23-30. [Available via Keele ejournals]
  • Seppä, K ; Pitkäniemi, J ; Malila, N ; Hakama, M, “Age-related incidence of cervical cancer supports two aetiological components: a population-based register study”, BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 2016, Vol.123(5), pp.772-778. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Shao, Di ; Gao, Wen ; Cao, Feng-Lin Kazak, Anne E. (editor), “Brief Psychological Intervention in Patients With Cervical Cancer: A Randomized Controlled Trial”, Health Psychology, 2016, Vol.35(12), pp.1383-1391. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Patel, H.; Moss, E.L.; Sherman, S.M., “HPV primary cervical screening in England: Women's awareness and attitudes.”, Psycho-oncology, 2018 , Vol.27(6), pp.1559-1564. [Available via Keele and will be available via NHS ejournals after 12 month embargo]
  • Patel, H.; Jeve, Y.B.; Sherman, S.M.; Moss E.L., “Knowledge of human papillomavirus and the human papillomavirus vaccine in European adolescents: a systematic review”, Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2016, Vol.92(6), pp.474-479. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]

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