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Experts review top medical advances.
Byline: Harry Jackson Jr.
ST. LOUIS _ A vaccine that prevents cervical cancer is the consensus pick by some medical experts as the top medical advance of 2006.
While it's not exactly a cure, it's a roadblock to one of the deadliest cancers in the world, they say.
The new vaccine prevents the strain of the human papillomavirus that causes 70 percent of cervical cancers. That same virus causes a bunch of other problems, and they, too, can be prevented with the vaccine, researchers say.
SMALL STEPS
Breakthrough medical treatments or cures have been sparse in the past few years. But experts say that's not a bad thing. It means highly contagious diseases such as polio and smallpox are gone and other contagious diseases such as HIV and AIDS are no longer guaranteed to be killers.
"We've stopped the diseases that used to (wipe out) large sectors of the population," says Tim McBride, professor of health management and policy for the St. Louis University School of Public Health. "When you look at medical care, just look at what we can do. We're at…
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