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More men than women infected with oral human papillomavirus

 Roughly one in nine U.S. men have oral infections of the cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV), more than triple the infection rate for women, a new study suggests.

Cervical cancer 'not just a young woman's disease'

 There is a perception that cervical cancer is a young woman's disease, but half of deaths occur in women over 65, a British Medical Journal report says.

Sexually transmitted diseases expected to occur more frequently in future

 Despite a decline until the turn of the century, sexually transmitted diseases could occur more frequently in the future, experts said at a press conference for the STI and AIDS World Congress 2013 in Vienna on Monday.

Austrian doctors make breakthrough in cervical cancer precursor treatment: media

 A new non-surgical suppository treatment for the precursors of cervical cancer has been developed by the Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) Vienna, media report said Monday.