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Vaccine Could Wipe Out Cervical Cancer.
Byline: Patricia Guthrie
Nov. 21--An experimental vaccine against the virus that causes cervical cancer has proven 100 percent effective against the disease that kills 250,000 women each year, a medical journal reported Wednesday.
The breakthrough is being hailed as the first vaccine against a tumor cancer. Doctors say it could eventually replace the need for annual Pap tests, and one day eliminate cervical cancer deaths globally, following in the big footsteps of vaccinations for smallpox and polio.
The study appears in today's New England Journal of Medicine.
"It's a very important moment in the history of cancer research because there [are] some other viruses implicated in other cancers and this points us in a new direction," said Dr. Jonathan Simons,…
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