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Effectiveness of preventive HPV vaccination reviewed.

Vaccine Weekly

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2004 FEB 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers review data on the effectiveness of preventive human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in a recent issue of the International Journal of STD and AIDS.

According to a study from Finland, "Infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) is one of the major preventable causes of cancer world-wide. Rapid increase in cervical cancer incidence also in some western countries with cervical cancer screening programs is probably due to increase in background exposure to HPV in the young. HPV vaccines are in clinical trials and the results have been promising, but due to assortative transmission of the infection and multiple HPV types the effect of large-scale immunization on their spread will vary between different populations and by HPV type."

"Thus, it is difficult to predict the effect of vaccination on cancer incidence on the basis of efficacy trials only," said Matti Lehtinen at the National Public Health Institute and Jorma Paavonen at the University of Helsinki in Finland. "In the following evaluation of population level, effectiveness of vaccination on ...

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