[Sensorial innovation for non-invasive breast cancer detection].

Breast cancer represents a great challenge due to the context of gender, social and cultural aspects, as well as of the possibility of making accessible early detection methods. Currently, detection mostly relies on image tests (invasive procedures). However, due to new and numerous cases detected in young women, and detected in such advanced stages that only palliative care may be offered, there is opportunity to develop new, innovative and promising detection tests.

[Clinical practice guideline. Diagnosis and treatment of postmenopausal and perinemopausia].

Post-menopause is the period of life where a deep decline occurs in circulating estrogen levels, inducing the appearance of psycho and somatic symptoms. The classification to understand the chronology of reproductive aging in women (known as STRAW) determines the clinical and endocrine changes contemplating menstrual cycles, symptoms, measurements of FSH, LH, inhibin B, anti-Mullerian hormone , and follicular account. The diagnosis of menopause is established by the absence of menstruation for 12 months or more.

[Usefulness and risks of routine mammography for the detection of breast cancer].

It has been accepted that preclinicall detection of breast cancer by means of the routine practice of mammography could discover the disease at its initial stage; therefore, practicing a mammography annually became widespread as a preventive health measure to diagnose the disease and prevent death due to breast cancer. Over time, the benefit of detection tests has been questioned and demonstration of their benefit, as well as that of the undesirable effects they might cause, has been demanded. There is recent information with regard to an absence of difference in terms of breast cancer mortality as final index between women with or without routine mammography.

[Decreased insulin resistance with amino acids, extracts and antioxidants in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome].

Background: The polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) it is a metabolic disorder with insulin resistance associated. Have been recently described contributor factors in the presence of insulin resistance that need to be studied. These factors can be the nutrients in the daily diet, final products of the advanced glycated end-products (AGEs), reactive derivatives of non enzymatic glucose-protein reactions either produced endogenously or ingested from dietary sources.

[Pap test used for detection of cellular changes associated with human papillomavirus].

Human papilloma virus can infect any mucous of the body and can cause cancer of the uterine cervix. This suggests recommending the Papanicolaou smear combined with a test for detection of human papillomavirus with a frequency interval of 3 years, since it grants greater information and fidelity to the result. The detection studies should begin at the age of 21 years and should stop at 65 years age.

[Infection therapeutic modalities in human papillomavirus].

Human papillomavirus (HPV) genital it can infect any mucous of the body and to cause cancer of the uterine cervix. Until recently specific treatments did not exist on this infection, for what had to destroy or to remove the injured tissue by diverse procedures, what could have obstetric repercussions in young women. Recently some surgical modalities and topical drugs have arisen, as well as of systemic employment that allow to arrive to the lesions difficult to approach, and have demonstrated good effectiveness to cure the infection for HPV, for what an analysis of the medical treatment of this infection type is made.

Clinical response to glycyrrhizinic acid in genital infection due to human papillomavirus and low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion.

Human papilloma virus (HPV) can infect any of the mucosal areas of the body and cause cervical cancer. Until recently, no specific treatments were available for this condition; therefore, any damaged tissue had to be removed or destroyed, which may have presented obstetrical repercussions for some women. Recently, new drugs have been developed that have shown to be effective for the cure of HPV infection.

[Acceptable quality cervical cytology taking: comparison of Cervex-brush and Cervex-mex methods].

Background: In cervical cytology taking there has been used several devices (swab, spatula, paintbrushes, and brushes) to reduce false negative results and the necessity to exfoliate more epithelial cells from squamous columnar joint and endocervix.

Objective: To compare the quality of cervical cytology taken with Cervex-brush and with Cervex-mex, utilizing the system of Bethesda.

Material And Method: Transversal and comparative study, carried out during a period of two years, that included women from 15 to 85 years old which responded spontaneously to Papanicolaou screening as part of the permanent program of opportune diagnosis of cervical-uterine cancer.

[Assessment of the treatment with imiquimod in persistent infection by human papillomavirus with the polimerase chain reaction method].

Background: Molecular studies have shown that oncogenic genotypes of human papillomavirus (HPV) are the main risk factor for cervical cancer development. Sub-clinical wound does not cause symptoms and is diagnosed by colposcopy or histology, in addition the latent infection is associated with the presence of DNA of the HPV, but when clinical and histological abnormalities are not presented only molecular techniques can detect this infection.

Objective: To determine if complementary processing with imiquimod, recent medicament with powerful antiviral activity in vitro as in vivo, reduces the cervical persistence of HPV.

[Endometriosis. Is it a problem of the immunological signs?].

Endometriosis syndrome affects 5% to 35% of women in reproductive age. Many theories have been suggested, but the true importance is the survival mechanism of endometriotic tissue, which seems to be related to a defect of the immunological vigilance from macrophages, which are responsible for secretion of a variety of biochemical substances such as cytokines, prostaglandins and growth factors, which through different ways stimulates the growth of the endometrial cells. This has been observed for the clear interrelation between the homeostasis of the body and the evident association of the hormonal factors with the processes of the immunological system, in whose field many steps are unknown.

[Endometriosis in delayed scarring of postpartum eutocic episiorrhaphy. Integral aspects and a case report].

Endometriosis remains a mystery because it has not yet been shown why these cells are viable in the abdominal cavity, although it has been thought that the immune system plays a role in implantation outside the intrauterine cavity by abasement in the regulatory capacity of natural killer cells, as well as peripheral and peritoneal immunologic cells. Among methods used to recognize this illness are laparoscopy, laparotomy, ultrasound, antibodies, and the histologic study. It has been observed that surgical scars can present cyclical inflammation and pain when affected with this pathology.