Showing posts with label HPV vacination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HPV vacination. Show all posts
Monday, June 19, 2017
New HPV vaccine could prevent most infections and millions of cancers
Cervical cancer affects more than half a million women and causes more than a quarter of a million deaths each year globally. Almost all cervical cancers result from a human papillomavirus, or HPV, infection. HPV infections cause cancers in other parts of the body, too. But the latest HPV vaccine could prevent most infections -; and millions of cancers -; worldwide, according to an article by Cosette Wheeler, PhD, and her collaborators.
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