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It’s not anything close to a leap back to the era of free love, but it is a step toward safer sex and preventing cancer. In June, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it had approved Gardasil as a vaccine against strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause cervical cancer in women. Subsequently, the Center for Disease Control’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended that girls receive the vaccine routinely at age 11 or 12. The vaccine offers a major breakthrough in women’s health...
...United States averages 9,710 new cases of cervical cancer and 3,700 deaths from cervical cancer each year. Worldwide there are 470,000 new cases and 233,000 people killed from the cancer per annum, making the disease the second most common cancer in women and increasing the significance of the vaccine’s development. The vaccine works by preventing the transmission of four of the more than 100 different strains of HPV, including some of the strains that substantially increase a woman’s risk of developing cervical cancer. Additionally, the vaccine blocks the transmission...
Gardasil is not a panacea for preventing cervical cancer: It isn’t absolutely effective, and women should continue to undergo regular cervical cancer screening. But the health benefits of the vaccine are already promising. We commend both the FDA and UHS for making the vaccine more readily accessible, and we commend the ACIP for its recommendations...
...many of the academic silos are not nearly as rigid as they are at many universities,” Cooney said. Halvorsen agreed that historically, cross-disciplinary work has not been as common at Harvard, but said that is rapidly changing. He cited the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute as examples of cross-disciplinary and inter-institutional cooperation. The University brought in Office of Technology Development head Isaac T. Kohlberg last year to “work on better translating the academic success that Harvard has had,” Halvorsen said. The office...
...Broad Institute has been analyzing the loss and amplification of parts of the genome, and it has been conducting sequencing experiments to identify key mutations in genes—springing the institute to the forefront of cancer research...