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Investigational vaccine reduces risk of HPV-related cervical cancer.

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2004 NOV 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Administration of an investigational vaccine reduced incidence of new persistent human papillomavirus (HPV) 16 infection and related cervical precancer by more than 90% in a study of women aged 16-23 who were HPV-naive at enrollment, researchers reported.

The data were presented in a late breaker presentation at the 44th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) Annual Meeting in Washington DC, on November 1, 2004.

In a 4-year study of 2,391 HPV-naive women (at baseline), the Virus-like Particle (VLP) vaccine was 100% effective in preventing HPV 16-related cervical intraepithelial…

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