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Human papillomavirus vaccines
1 May 2006
Abstract excerpt
A wealth of epidemiological and molecular evidence has led to the conclusion that virtually all cases of cervical cancer and its precursor intra-epithelial lesions are a result of infection with one or other of a subset of genital human papillomaviruses (HPVs) suggesting that prevention of infection by prophylactic vaccination would be an effective anti-cancer strategy. The papillomaviruses cannot be grown in...
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