New HPV vaccine offers greater protection against cervical cancer than current vaccine

Thursday, February 19, 2015 - 09:30 in Health & Medicine

Scientists have developed a new HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccine which protects against nine types of the virus -- seven of which cause most cases of cervical cancer. The new vaccine offers significantly greater protection than the current vaccine, which protects against only two cancer causing types of HPV.

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