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Cervical cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in women worldwide and the third most frequent cancer in women during their child bearing years (ages 20 to 49). The family of human papilloma viruses (HPV) are the most common viruses in the world today.
There is conclusive evidence that specific strains of HPV are the major risk factor leading to cervical cancer. Approximately 80% of women will contract HPV during their lifetime. HPV is also responsible for most abnormal Pap smears, and fifty percent of the Canadian women diagnosed with cervical cancer annually have not had regular Pap smear screening. With the advent of the HPV vaccine, it is now possible to move from early diagnosis and secondary prevention to true prevention.
Find out about new technological and medical advances in screening, treatment and prevention of cervical cancer. After 50 years, is the Pap test a procedure of the past?
When:
Thursday, April 26, 2007, 7:15 - 9:30 a.m.
Where:
Collaboration Centre Auditorium
MaRS Discovery District
101 College Street, Toronto
Dr. Marla Shapiro is a Certificant of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and a Specialist in Community Medicine. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto and has her own family practice. The medical consultant for CTV National news and Canada AM, she also hosts the show "Balance: Television for Living Well" and has a bi-weekly column in "The Globe and Mail". Dr. Shapiro is the recipient of the 2005 Media Award from the North American Menopause Society for her work in expanding the understanding of menopause, and won the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada/Canadian Foundation for Women’s Health Award for Excellence in Women’s Health Journalism in 2006 for her documentary "Run Your Own Race". In 2006, she published the national bestseller "Life in the Balance: My Journey with Breast Cancer". She lives in Toronto with her family.
Dr. Vivien Brown is a family physician, licensed in Quebec and Ontario. Educated in Montreal, at McGill University, where she studied internal medicine as well as family medicine, she has a well-established community based practice. Certified by the College of Family Physicians in 1986, she has served as an examiner for the College, helping to maintain a high academic standard of care and is now a Fellow of the College of Family Physicians.
Previously a staff physician at the University of Toronto Health Service, she was also involved with medical teaching on a practical level, supervising residents for The Toronto Hospital, and is currently teaching medical students at Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr. Brown is recognized as a menopause clinician, by the North American Menopause Society.
Appointed to the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, Dr. Brown has recently received the Community Development Award from the University for Excellence in Professional Development. Active in community efforts to raise awareness for Women's Health, she is involved with The Genesis Foundation and with the Osteoporosis Society. Dr. Brown maintains her commitment to continuing education for family physicians by frequently lecturing on preventative medicine. Dr. Brown is on staff at Mount Sinai Hospital, The University Health Network and North York General Hospital in Toronto, Ontario.
Dr Joan Murphy is Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at University of Toronto and Head of the Division of Gyn Oncology in the joint UHN/Mount Sinai Hospital Department of OB/GYN at Princess Margaret Hospital and Toronto General Hospital. She is a medical school graduate of the University of Calgary, of res- idency training at UBC and a combined fellowship at UBC and McMaster University. She has been a faculty member at UBC and at McMaster before moving to University of Toronto in 1985. Her academic activities include clinical teaching, resident and fellow training, fundraising for gynecologic cancer research, co-directing the UHN multidisciplinary Toronto Ovarian Cancer Research Network, participating in ovarian cancer research including the genetics of ovarian cancer, advancing cervical cancer screening and prevention, administration at UHN and providing tertiary-level clinical care in gyn/oncology surgery and chemotherapy. Her past activities have included directing the sub-specialty training program in Gynecologic Oncology, chairing the Clinical Quality Improvement Committee at UHN and research in HIV and cervical cancer.
Dr. R. Michael Shier is currently the Deputy Chief of Gynecology and Director of the Colposcopy Unit and Vulvar Disease Unit at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. As a Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Toronto, Dr. Shier has received the University of Toronto Aikins Award for Excellence in Teaching on two occasions. He has also accepted the Award of Education Excellence from The American Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics in Washington, DC.
Dr. Shier is also past President of The Society of Canadian Colposcopists and past Chair of The Medical Council of Canada for Obstetrics and Gynecology.
His current research interests include prophylactic vaccination with HPV virus-like particles to prevent female lower genital tract cancers and prevention and treatment of cervical neoplasia with topical gels.
