Parth D. Shah, Pharm.D., Ph.D., from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, and colleagues surveyed a national sample of 1,196 U.S. parents of children aged 9 to 17 years in 2017 to 2018. The researchers recorded brief videos of a pediatrician providing messagesthat addressed seven HPV vaccination topics that often elicit questions or...
Tag: <span>HPV vaccine</span>
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FDA Expands Usage Of HPV Vaccine To Adults Aged 27 To 45
The U.S. Food and Drug Authority has adjusted the age range of women and men who can get the HPV vaccine Gardasil. The vaccine has previously been approved to be administered from the age of 9 up to 26, but doctors usually stop advising older adults to get their shots. The recent change will finally...
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Vaccine, anti-PD1 drug show promise against incurable HPV-related cancers
A tumor-specific vaccine combined with an immune checkpoint inhibitor shrank tumors in one third of patients with incurable cancer related to the human papilloma virus (HPV) in a phase II clinical trial led by investigators at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and reported in JAMA Oncology. Electron micrograph of a negatively stained...
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Sylvester researcher uses HPV vaccine to treat patient with skin cancer
Squamous cell carcinoma is the second-most-common form of skin cancer. Evidence suggests the human papilloma virus plays a role in the development of some types of this skin cancer. Two years ago, a 97-year-old woman whose right leg was covered with squamous cell tumors went to see dermatologist Anna Nichols, M.D., Ph.D., at Sylvester Comprehensive...
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New HPV vaccine could prevent almost all cervical cancers
For women, cervical cancer is the fourth most widespread cancer, and in developing countries it is the most common cause of cancer death. A new study from researchers at Melbourne’s Royal Women’s Hospital and the Victorian Cytology Service has found that a new HPV vaccine could prevent up to 93 percent of all cervical cancers....
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