TECHNOLOGY: Vaccine Against Cervical Cancer Works: "The first major human trial of the vaccine to prevent cervical cancer has been completed with stunning results: damn-near 100% effectiveness.

Gardasil, a genetically engineered vaccine, blocks infection with two of the 100-plus types of human papilloma virus, HPV 16 and 18. The two sexually transmitted viruses together cause about 70 percent of cervical cancers.



The final-stage study of Gardasil included 10,559 sexually active women ages 16 to 26 in the United States and 12 other countries who were not infected with HPV 16 or 18. Half got three vaccine doses over six months; half got dummy shots.



Among those still virus-free after the six months, none who received the vaccine developed cervical cancer or precancerous lesions over an average two years of follow-up, compared with 21 who got dummy shots.



'To have 100 percent efficacy is something that you have very rarely,' Dr. Eliav Barr, Merck's head of clinical development for Gardasil, told The Associated Press. 'We're breaking out the champagne.'



A second analysis, including hundreds more women participating in the ongoing study, showed that after just one dose the vaccine was 97 percent effective. That analysis found only one of the 5,736 women who got the vaccine developed cervical cancer or precancerous lesions, compared with 36 among the 5,766 who got dummy shots.



Barr said the 97 percent rate was more 'real world,' given that patients sometimes miss or delay follow-up shots or tests.

This is some amazing news for women everywhere. Now let's hope that the fucktards who believe that anything that prevents STDs contributes to promiscuity and is therefore against God's will don't fuck this up for the rest of us.

(Written by: Shalome)

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(Via SuicideGirls: News Wire.)