Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Vaccines on horizon for some oral cancers

The researchers delving into the causes of oral and neck cancers have found some tumors are HPV positive. This means that for one group of oral cancer sufferers, the Virus that causes Cervical cancer also causes oral cancer. This is leading researchers to investigate vaccinating young men and women with the new Gardasil vaccine. More research is needed, and oral cancers are still being caused by smoking tobacco, marijuana and drinking alcohol. No vaccine can stop those risk factors.

Read the full article here.

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