Cervical cancer is the most common form of gynecological cancer. A small number of diagnoses occur during pregnancy, or in the postpartum period immediately following childbirth. Receiving a diagnosis ...

When you’re pregnant, you learn all kinds of things about your anatomy that you may not have known before. And sometimes, you learn things that require extra care during pregnancy. That’s the case if ...

Cervical cancer can impact people before and during pregnancy. Early screening and comprehensive care from a multidisciplinary medical team can help many people with cervical cancer experience a ...

How much thought do you really give to your cervix, the cylinder-shaped piece of tissue that connects the vagina with the uterus? When you're pregnant, your cervix takes center stage, opening up and ...

A new research paper was published in Oncoscience's Volume 12 on January 20, 2025, titled "Maternal, delivery and neonatal outcomes in women with cervical cancer. A study of a population database." In ...

When you're pregnant, you may learn about body parts you’ve never heard of before. Because let’s be honest: Even if your high school sex-ed class was detailed, how much do you really remember? During ...

During one of Bethany Hart’s early examinations while pregnant, she underwent a routine Pap smear and learned the results were abnormal. At the time, the then-30-year-old was about 10 weeks along, and ...

Kayla Bittick was more than ready to start a family. She and her husband, Cory, had been trying to conceive their first child for four years. They’d also tried a round of intrauterine insemination ...

I had two second-trimester pregnancy losses, both near the 20-week mark. In my third pregnancy, I was sent to a high-risk OB-GYN and diagnosed with cervical insufficiency. I had a cervical cerclage in ...

Cervical effacement is a term to describe thinning of the cervix, the lower end of your uterus that connects with your vagina. This thinning occurs before and during labor and helps prepare your ...