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The Bureau of Foods and Drugs (BFAD) recently approved MerckSharp & Dohme’s (MSD) quadrivalent human papillomavirus (types 6, 11, 16, 18) recombinant vaccine for use in women up to 45 years old. The MSD cervical cancer vaccine is now indicated for girls and women age nine to 45. The vaccine prevented 91-percent persistent infection, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (any grade), and external genital lesions caused by HPV types 6, 11, 16, and 18 compared with placebo (sugar pill), in women aged 24 through 45, according to new data presented during a press conference in Manila.

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What is cervical cancer? Cervical cancer – one of around 200 different types of cancer - develops in the cervix, the cone-shaped part of the uterus that connects to the upper part of the uterus (the womb) and the vagina. Cervical cancer develops when abnormal cells in the lining of the cervix begin to multiply out of control in response to HPV (human papillomavirus) infection. Abnormal cervical cells can gather to form a lump called a tumor. Benign (non-cancerous) tumors do not spread and are usually not harmful. Malignant (cancerous) tumors, however, spread from their sources and grow into life-threatening cancer.

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