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Cancer Vaccine

mah
mah CSN Member Posts: 28
edited March 2014 in Head and Neck Cancer #1
Does anyone out there know anything about the cancer vaccine they are working on for head and neck cancer? I would appreciated any infor you can give me. Thank you. MA
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  • hilllaguna
    hilllaguna CSN Member Posts: 7
    #2
    I think the information that you are reffering to is in relationship to cervical cancer. The reason that this is such big news in the oral cancer community is that many of those that have oral cancers but were never tobacco users ( the primary risk factor) have a cancer causing virus HPV 16/18 which causes 95% of all cervical cancers in women. A vaccine that relates to cervical cancers may then have applications for oral SCC's as well. The news article on this can be seen at http://www.oralcancerfoundation.org/news/story.asp?newsId=15
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  • tonynedna
    tonynedna CSN Member Posts: 2
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    Johns hopkins and baylor university are in phase one trails of a nasopharyngeal cancer vaccine
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