cervical cancers

Two human papillomavirus types included in HPV vaccines cause 71% of cervical cancers -- but there are six other cervical-cancer-causing HPVs, an international study finds.

(American Association for Cancer Research) Although a wide spectrum of human papillomavirus is seen across the population of India, HPV-16 and HPV-18 are the most common types and a vaccination targeting these types could eliminate 75 percent of the cervical cancers in the region, according to data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Frontiers in Basic Cancer Research Meeting.

WASHINGTON — An FDA advisory panel today voted to recommend approval of GlaxoSmithKline’s Cervarix vaccine for use against the two strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) that cause 70% of cervical cancers.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (MedPage Today) -- Human papillomavirus (HPV) strains 16 and 18 caused most of the invasive cervical cancers diagnosed in the state in the 1980s and '90s, researchers here said.