Experimental therapy completely clears HPV in one-third of cervical cancer precursors
Thursday, April 4, 2019 - 09:20
in Health & Medicine
A potential new immune-based therapy to treat precancers in the cervix completely eliminated both the lesion and the underlying HPV infection in a third of women enrolled in a clinical trial. The shot, a therapeutic vaccine, injects a specific protein that triggers an immune system response to attack high-risk HPV types that cause nearly all […]