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British Medical Journal

| November 30, 2002 | Gottlieb, Scott | COPYRIGHT 2003 British Medical Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Researchers have developed an experimental vaccine that seems to give women complete protection against a virus that causes most cases of cervical cancer.

The vaccine will not be available to women for several years, as researchers continue work to ensure that the vaccine can deliver long term blanket protection against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV), believed to be responsible for most cases of cervical cancer. But the new study proves a long debated point: viruses that cause cancer can be halted with vaccines, offering hope that one deadly cancer could be largely eliminated with simple injections (New England Journal of Medicine…

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