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Byline: Raja Mishra
Nov. 21--Researchers have developed an experimental vaccine that gives women complete protection against a virus that causes most cases of cervical cancer, according to a new study that suggests widespread inoculations may one day reverse the worldwide cervical cancer epidemic.
The vaccine will not be available to women for several years, as researchers continue work to assure the vaccine can deliver long-term blanket protection against the sexually transmitted human papilloma virus, or HPV, responsible for almost all cervical cancer cases.
But the new study, based on trials in more than 2,000 women, proves a long-debated point: cancer-causing viruses can be halted with vaccines, offering tantalizing hope that one deadly cancer could be largely eliminated with simple injections, as smallpox and polio…