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Vaccine for skin cancer 'available in five years'
telegraph.co.uk - 11/17/2008
Vaccine for skin cancer 'available in five years'
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The scientist who developed a vaccine for cervical cancer is working on another inoculation against certain types of skin cancer that could be available in five years time.
msnbc.msn.com - 11/13/2008
HPV vaccine can prevent genital warts in men - Cancer
— msnbc.msn.com — > ATLANTA - For the first time, an expensive vaccine aimed at preventing cervical cancer in women... has proven successful at preventing a disease in men, according to a study released Thursday by the vaccine’s maker. The disease is genital warts — ... (more) HPV vaccine can prevent genital warts in men - Cancer
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Barcepundit (English edition) — ... IAN FRAZER, who developed the vaccine for cervical cancer, announces that a vaccine for certain types of skin cancer will be available in about five years. Good. ...

Another Cancer Vaccine on the Way
Bitchin' in the Kitchen — This is cool news: Professor Ian Frazer, of the University of Queensland, said tests of the vaccine had proven successful on animals and that human trials could begin next year. … The jab would protect against squamous cell carcinoma, the second most common skin cancer, but not the more deadly melanomas. It works by targeting papillomavirus, a common infection which can turn abnormal cells into cancerous cells and is believed to cause at least five per cent of all cancers. Unfortunately, it sounds like ...

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