Shan Wang of Stanford has used a GMR chip smaller than a postage stamp to detect carcinoma-embryonic antigen (a sign of colon and rectal cancer) and human papilloma virus, the main cause of cervical cancer.
The second is a vaccine for human papilloma virus, which causes cervical cancer.
The biggest blockbuster left in its pipeline is a chancy vaccine for the human papilloma virus, which causes cervical cancer.
According to the National Cancer Institute, oral contraceptives have been shown to increase the risk of cervical cancer, although human papillomavirus is the major risk factor for the disease.
According to the CDC's 2008 statistics on the nation's health, 45 percent of young women between the ages of 20 and 24 in the United States were infected with human papillomavirus, which can cause cervical cancer, in 2003-04.
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Such viruses include the human papilloma virus, which can lead to cervical cancer, and Kaposi's sarcoma, which affects patients with HIV.
But Gillison, 44, a professor at Ohio State University, was among the first researchers to make a startling realization: The old cigarettes-and-alcohol form of the disease was being eclipsed by a new form, caused by the same human papilloma virus (HPV) that causes cervical cancer.
Perhaps the most promising is Gardasil, a vaccine that would prevent cervical cancer by immunizing women against the human papilloma virus.
During that time, Clark may only get to launch one drug with really big potential: Gardasil, a vaccine for the human papilloma virus, or HPV, which causes cervical cancer.
Almost all the cases of cervical cancer are caused by infection with the human papilloma virus, or HPV, which causes normal cells to multiply out of control.
Experts have said many of the head and neck tumours they are seeing contain the human papilloma virus (HPV) which is more commonly associated with cervical cancer and, according to Cancer Research UK, can be passed on through kissing.
The human papillomavirus (HPV), is found in most women who have developed cervical cancer.
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is likely to play a significant role in the development of cervical cancer, and the bacteria H. pylori in the development of gastric cancers.
For the past seven years, a drumbeat of publicity and warnings were issued over the virtues of the human papillomavirus, or HPV, and how to thwart its spread before countless women develop cervical cancer.
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Both Merck's Gardasil, which is already on the market, and Glaxo's Cervarix, which is not, work by preventing infection of strains of the human papilloma virus (HPV) that, in turn, cause the vast majority of cervical cancer cases.
Both Merck's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) Gardasil, which is already on the market, and Glaxo's (nyse: GSK - news - people ) Cervarix, which is not, work by preventing infection of strains of the human papilloma virus (HPV) that, in turn, cause the vast majority of cervical cancer cases.
Both vaccines protect against human papilloma virus (HPV) types 16 and 18, which cause more than 70% of cervical cancer.
The vaccine works by preventing a sexually transmitted disease--the human papillomavirus, or HPV--that infects some 20 million Americans and is the main cause of cervical cancer.
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