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vaginal cancer

Gynecology Any malignancy of the vagina, including nonepithelial lesions–eg, Sarcoma botryoides; vaginal adenoCA is linked to maternal use of DES during pregnancy. See Diethylstilbestrol.
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Toni Atherton, who grew up in West Derby and went to Broughton Hall school, was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer when she was just 24 and then was later diagnosed with vaginal cancer in 2017.
Low-risk HPV causes warts, which are non-cancerous tumours and the high-risk HPV causes various cancers such as cervical cancer, vaginal cancer, vulvar cancer, oral cancer, anal and penile cancer.
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Nathan says: "Failed sterilisation and delaying diagnosis of ovarian or vaginal cancer are also two common issues that we have seen lead to successful medical negligence claims in the past."
High-risk types of HPV are also liked to other types of cancer, including: vaginal cancer; vulval cancer; anal cancer; cancer of the penis; and some cancers of the head and neck.
Gynaecologic oncology is a specialized field of medicine that focuses on cancers of the female reproductive system, including ovarian cancer, uterine cancer, vaginal cancer, cervical cancer, and vulvae cancer.
Gynecologic oncology is a specialised field of medicine which focuses on cancers of the female reproductive system, including ovarian cancer, uterine cancer, vaginal cancer, cervical cancer, and vulvar cancer.
Primary vaginal cancer should be differentiated from cancers metastatic to the vagina, which constitute the majority of cancers found in the vagina (84%).(5) Vaginal squamous-cell carcinoma arises from the thin, flat squamous cells that line the vagina.
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