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Quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine.
The lifetime risk of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection exceeds 50%. HPV infection causes >550,000 cases of cervical and anogenital cancer worldwide annually. Infection also causes precancerous lesions and genital warts. HPV types 16 and 18 cause approximately 70% of HPV-related cancers, and HPV types 6 and 11 cause approximately 90% of cases of genital warts. A quadrivalent vaccine for HPV t...
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UNLABELLED QUESTION A: patient of mine who recently learned she was 6 weeks pregnant had received the recombinant human papillomavirus (HPV) quadrivalent vaccine at 4 weeks of gestation. She is quite worried about how this will affect her baby. What is known about the safety of the HPV vaccine during pregnancy? ANSWER The HPV vaccine is generally not recommended for use in pregnant women. How...
متن کاملHuman papillomavirus vaccine for children and adolescents.
The purpose of the present statement is to review the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) recommendations on the use of HPV vaccine for children and youth in Canada. The epidemiology of HPV-6, -11, -16 and -18 infection and its associated diseases in Canada, as well as information on the currently approved vaccine is summarized. For an extensive review of HPV vaccine in Canada, readers are referr...
متن کاملTherapeutic Vaccine Strategies against Human Papillomavirus
High-risk types of human papillomavirus (HPV) cause over 500,000 cervical, anogenital and oropharyngeal cancer cases per year. The transforming potential of HPVs is mediated by viral oncoproteins. These are essential for the induction and maintenance of the malignant phenotype. Thus, HPV-mediated malignancies pose the unique opportunity in cancer vaccination to target immunologically foreign ep...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0148-5717
DOI: 10.1097/olq.0b013e318248aaa0