Don't know if anybody had heard, but in Australia some 15 years of research has resulted in a vaccine which prevents women from developing cervical cancer. The vaccine lasts for 10 years. Apparently tests were conducted on 12,000 women in many countries worldwide and they say it has a 100% success rate.

http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/comm...255E421,00.html


Is the real deal i've seen it on TV. Lets hope they find vaccines for other types of cancer in the years to come.

the topic title stunned me
so did the news.

Excellent

Even thought this is a huge step in defeating cancer, this vaccine only works against some types of cervical cancer, not all, and last I heard it had a 98% success rate. Still excellent progess.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4317972.stm

Edit* Ah so it is 100%, I stand corrected.

This is because the majority of cervical cancer is caused by the Human Papilloma Virus which are transmitted sexually (other strains cause warts). It is a major breakthrough for general practice since the "pap smear" test will no longer need to be a routine examination.

Great news, lets pray to get it distributed commercially soon.

Thats wonderful news to hear maybe one day we will be able to see more of such vaccines.

Definately good to hear

Yeah just a pity more cancers aren't caused by infectious agents that are able to be combatted. However we can still try continue to develop vaccines against HIV, Epstein-Barr (glandular fever), etc.

This is wonderful news and I'm glad to see that there is progress being made in the vaccination of certain cancers; however I do hope that more vacines/cures will be discovered in the near future. Although this is great news, we all have to consider the possibility that this vaccine will not be as wide spread as we can hope. Medical Boards will have to study it further, approve it, which could take years, and the vaccine will probably be very expensive, especially with rising health care costs which gives the possibility that many health care companies will not pay for it...

I hope I'm terribly wrong.

My friend krissy has HPV. She got it from her first boyfriend, and the first time she had sex. She has pre cancerous cells now, and is actually getting an operation friday. It's sad. She wont have sex with anyone else because she doesnt want to give it to them, I feel so sorry for her. She has to get part of her uterus cut out.

good artical mate .

could've happened to anyone, i hope she recovers from it well

i dare to imagine what the side effects of the vaccine is. If allergy medicine gives you upper respiratory infection, this stuff might........well, kill you
hope they get that to a minimum

Uh, I'm no medical expert, but as far as I know... side effects of vaccines are generally limited to very very very mild symptoms of the virus, and for a very short time until the anti-bodies are able correctly identify and destroy the virus.

Medicines work on a completely different idea.

Many vaccines aren't even attenuated pathogens anymore but protein sequences which the immune system can recognise and attack. Apart from a massive abnormal anaphylactic response from the immune system there's usually few other things to worry about.

@ Serge666
Upper respiratory tract infections are a dime a dozen. I'm sure you've gotten them every change of season

That's what is known as a common cold, right?

Colds, flus, strep infections, you name it