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Washington
03 July 2007
A second cervical cancer vaccine1 has passed a key clinical trial and its maker2 is seeking to use the vaccine in countries around the world. As VOA's Carol Pearson reports, more women may be able to use this new vaccine by drug giant GlaxoSmithKline than use the first cervical cancer vaccine, Gardisil.
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Dr. Gary Dubin oversaw3 clinical trials of Cervarix that involved more than 18,000 women from 14 countries across Europe, Asia, Latin and North America.
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"The reason this is important is that these two HPV types are responsible for about 70 percent of cervical cancers globally."
Dr. Levi Downs is an investigator4 in the Cervarix study at the University of Minnesota. He adds, "Secondly5, and very important, they show us the vaccine is also effective against other HPV types that can cause cervix cancer.
Virtually 100 percent of women have the potential of receiving some benefit from this vaccine."
The studies also show Cervarix is effective even for women who previously6 had cancerous lesions, provided those lesions have been cleared.
More than half a million women around the world will be diagnosed with cervical cancer this year. The disease will claim the lives of nearly 300,000 women.
GlaxoSmithKline has initiated7 a study comparing Cervarix with Gardisil to see if one vaccine is more effective than the other. So far, no data is available.
But with the expected approval of Cervarix in many countries, women can add another weapon in their arsenal8 against the cancer-causing human papillomavirus.
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