Experimental vaccine cures pre-cancer vulvar growths.

Experimental vaccine cures pre-cancer vulvar growths
November 6 2009 | Times of India Bangalore

An experimental vaccine cured nearly half of women with pre-cancerous growths on their genitals, producing major improvement in nearly four out of five, researchers in the Netherlands reported. We hope to get results like this in women with cancer, but those tests are in the future, team leader Gemma Kenter of Leiden University said. The vaccine is different from the Mercks Gardasil vaccine and GlaxoSmithKlines rival Cervarix, which are available to prevent cervical cancer caused by common forms of the human papillomavirus, known as HPV.