Friday, November 1, 2013

HPV Vaccines may Not be as Effective in African American Women as in White Women

A new study conducted by researchers at Duke Medicine reveals that two of the subtypes of human papillomavirus (HPV) that can be destroyed by vaccines were half as likely to be found in African American women compared to white women who have precancerous cervical lesions The findings, presented on Oct. 28, 2013, at the 12th annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research hosted by the American Association for Cancer Research, suggest that ...

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