Cervarix™: a vaccine for the prevention of HPV 16, 18-associated cervical cancer
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چکیده
Cervical cancer continues to be the second largest cause of cancer deaths in women worldwide. Persistent infection with high-risk types of human papillomavirus (HPV) is a necessary cause of cervical cancer. Thus, prophylactic vaccination against HPV is an attractive strategy to prevent cervical cancer. Current strategies for the development of safe and effective preventive vaccines are based on the induction of neutralizing antibodies against the major capsid protein, L1 of HPV. Cervarix() is one of the preventive HPV vaccines that has been approved in the Europe and Australia and is currently under review by the US Food and Drug Administration. Cervarix is composed of HPV16 and HPV18 L1 virus-like particles (VLPs) formulated in ASO4 adjuvant. Vaccination with Cervarix has been shown to protect women against a high proportion of precursor lesions of cervical cancer caused by these two HPV types. This review explores the various features of this new vaccine candidate and discusses the future directions in the field of HPV vaccine development.
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Volume 82, Number 12 www.aafp.org/afp American Family Physician 1541 The bivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) recombinant vaccine (Cervarix) is the second vaccine to be approved in the United States for the prevention of cervical cancer, cervical adenocarcinoma in situ, and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) caused by HPV types 16 and 18.1 These HPV types currently cause 70 percent of all ...
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