Screening tests check for a condition, like cancer, in people who don’t have any signs or symptoms. There aren’t any screening tests for vulvar cancer. The best ways to detect this disease as early as ...

Staging means finding out how far vulvar cancer has spread in your body. Physicians group vulvar cancer into stages I (1) through IV (4). Stage I is the least advanced, and stage IV is the most ...

A patient turned advocate underscores the importance of education, especially for those facing a rare cancer. Stacey Hudson Padova had never heard of vulvar cancer until she received a diagnosis in ...

Gynecological cancers affect the reproductive organs of people who were assigned female at birth (AFAB). They include cancers of the: Cervix Ovaries Uterus Vagina Vulva A sixth type is a very rare ...

Precision medicine is looking increasingly promising in advanced vulvar squamous cell carcinomas (VSCCs), which make up 90% of vulvar cancers. The emergence of molecular stratification provides ...

A Florida woman learned that her husband had cheated on her and that he had given her human papillomavirus (HPV) Soon after, the woman was diagnosed with cancer of the vulva, cervix and anus, which ...

A new study of female Medicare beneficiaries reveals that vulvar lichen sclerosus affects 7 out of every 1,000 women aged 65 and older, significantly higher than rates seen in younger populations. The ...

Clobetasol reduces vulvar malignancy risk at 2 years after diagnosis; topical calcineurin inhibitors do not increase ...