The second is a vaccine for human papilloma virus, which causes cervical cancer.
The biggest blockbuster left in its pipeline is a chancy vaccine for the human papilloma virus, which causes cervical cancer.
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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Such viruses include the human papilloma virus, which can lead to cervical cancer, and Kaposi's sarcoma, which affects patients with HIV.
Perhaps the most promising is Gardasil, a vaccine that would prevent cervical cancer by immunizing women against the human papilloma virus.
At least 90% of cervical cancer is known to be caused by papilloma viruses, and Dr zur Hausen suspects that all are.
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.
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.
Shan Wang of Stanford has used a GMR chip smaller than a postage stamp to detect carcinoma-embryonic antigen (a sign of colon and rectal cancer) and human papilloma virus, the main cause of cervical cancer.
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.
Working in the Universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Freiburg in the 1970s and 1980s, he first hypothesised that papilloma viruses, which cause skin warts, are also the cause of cervical tumours, and then gathered evidence to prove the point.
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.
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