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Cancer Vaccines
Scientists at Kimmel Cancer Center report research in cancer vaccines
December 16th, 2008
A new study, 'HPV prophylactic vaccines and the potential prevention of noncervical cancers in both men and women,' is now available. "Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a necessary cause of cervical cancer. In addition, on the basis of the fulfillment of a combination of viral as well as epidemiological criteria, it is currently accepted that a proportion of anal, oropharyngeal, vulvar, and vaginal cancers among women and anal, oropharyngeal, and penile cancers among men are etiologically related to HPV," scientists in the United States report. "At these noncervical sites with etiologic heterogeneity, HPV-associated cancers represent a distinct clinicopathological entity,...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-12-16)
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