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Cancer Vaccines
Findings from Westmead Hospital broaden understanding of cancer vaccines
June 17th, 2009
"The risk of cervical cancer in women who are kidney transplant recipients is increased, but little is known about the effectiveness of screening and human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in this group of women. We sought to determine the cost effectiveness of annual screening for cervical cancers using conventional cytology, liquid-based cytology (LBC), and pretransplant HPV vaccination in kidney transplant recipients," scientists writing in the journal Transplantation report. "Three deterministic Markov models were developed to compare the costs and health outcomes in a cohort of women (n=1000) with kidney transplants aged 18 to 69 who underwent annual...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-06-17)
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