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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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The NCI intramural program, in collaboration with industry, is actively working on the development of a vaccine that will prevent HPV infection and, by extension, cervical cancer.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Second, immune-based therapies have proven utility in the treatment and prevention of disease, particularly the use of HPV vaccines in cervical cancer.
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David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist
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A vaccine like treatment that has been developed for cervical cancer is now being considered for the HPV positive oral cancer.
Similar to the cervical cancer story there has been enormous amounts spent on research into new whooping cough vaccines.
Koutsky said that future vaccines might also act against more of the virus types that cause cervical cancer.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Cervical cancer may have the potential to be eradicated via the development and implementation of effective HPV vaccines.
HPV Vaccine Development: Recent efforts to prevent cervical cancer have focused on the development of a vaccine to prevent HPV infection.
Development of effective prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines could dramatically reduce the cost of screening for cervical cancer.
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