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    Synthetic vaccine found effective in killing HPV-derived cancer

    June 12, 2012
    Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have developed and tested in mice a synthetic vaccine and found it effective in killing human papillomavirus-derived cancer, a virus linked to cervical cancers among others.

    Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have developed and tested in mice a synthetic vaccine and found it effective in killing human papillomavirus-derived (HPV) cancer, a virus linked to cervical cancers among others.

    The research was published in a recent issue of Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy.

    The authors of the study concluded, "We believe that these studies may help to launch more effective and less invasive therapeutic vaccines for HPV-caused malignancies."

    Click here to read more from ScienceDaily.

    Click here to read a report on HPV from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).