In previous clinical trials, Gardasil was shown to work at preventing infection with the HPV virus.
Fortunately, however, the vast majority of women with the HPV virus will not develop cervical cancer at all.
Today, many women's Paps undergo an additional DNA-based test to see if they harbor the HPV virus, which can spur cervical cancer.
Researchers have also argued that it might make sense to vaccinate boys as well, because the vaccine also prevents genital warts, and because men pass the HPV virus to women.
Both vaccines protect against human papilloma virus (HPV) types 16 and 18, which cause more than 70% of cervical cancer.
The age changes will start in 2015 when the first cohort of girls given the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination reach screening age.
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Instead, his cancer was caused by the human papilloma virus (HPV), which is sexually transmitted and a common cause of throat and mouth cancer.
The injection - part of a national immunisation programme - protects against the human papilloma virus (HPV), a sexually transmitted disease linked to most cervical cancers.
The number of cases of throat cancer caused by the human papilloma virus (HPV) is estimated to be about 11, 300 now, increasing to 20, 000 and beyond over the next few years as this infection spreads.
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Both Merck's Gardasil, which is already on the market, and Glaxo's Cervarix, which is not, work by preventing infection of strains of the human papilloma virus (HPV) that, in turn, cause the vast majority of cervical cancer cases.
Experts have said many of the head and neck tumours they are seeing contain the human papilloma virus (HPV) which is more commonly associated with cervical cancer and, according to Cancer Research UK, can be passed on through kissing.
But Gillison, 44, a professor at Ohio State University, was among the first researchers to make a startling realization: The old cigarettes-and-alcohol form of the disease was being eclipsed by a new form, caused by the same human papilloma virus (HPV) that causes cervical cancer.
Both Merck's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) Gardasil, which is already on the market, and Glaxo's (nyse: GSK - news - people ) Cervarix, which is not, work by preventing infection of strains of the human papilloma virus (HPV) that, in turn, cause the vast majority of cervical cancer cases.
My question now: does the noise about HPV, a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical and other cancers, help vaccination efforts?
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Almost all the cases of cervical cancer are caused by infection with the human papilloma virus, or HPV, which causes normal cells to multiply out of control.
During that time, Clark may only get to launch one drug with really big potential: Gardasil, a vaccine for the human papilloma virus, or HPV, which causes cervical cancer.
The American Social Health Association says HPV is the most common sexually transmitted virus and puts that number at 75 percent or more.
But HPV is a different bug: It is the only known virus that can't be grown in tissue cultures.
McKinney says she had heard about the HPV vaccine, but she had never heard about the test for the virus until a nurse handed her an informational brochure.
But the benefit of the new HPV test is that it tells you right away if you're infected with a virus that could cause the cancer.
The HPV test can detect an active infection with one of the high-risk strains of the virus.
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