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Study: Vaccine Protects Against Cancer

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=st...p;e=6&ncid=

"Efforts to develop the world's first vaccine to prevent cervical cancer took a key step forward Monday with test results suggesting that it can provide long-lasting protection.

Four years after getting the vaccine, 94 percent of women were protected from infection with the virus that causes most cervical cancers and none had developed worrisome precancerous conditions, a study showed."

"An experimental vaccine prevented women from becoming persistently infected with a virus that is associated with half of all cervical cancers, researchers reported in the November 21, 2002, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (see the journal abstract of the study)."

"If the vaccine makes it to market, it would be the second developed to prevent cancer. The hepatitis B vaccine has dramatically reduced the number of infections that progress to liver cancer."

"Giving the vaccine to men would not only prevent disease in them but also would prevent infections in their partners, said Steven Projan, a drug development expert with Wyeth who helped review research for the microbiology meeting. The vaccine also might prevent women already infected with HPV from developing cancer.."

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/11/1/192813.shtml

Interesting, I did not realize viruses can lead to cancer. Hope this vaccine makes it to market.

Sincerely,

Well, you learn something new every day! Glad I could help.