Market Press Release – May 13, 2011 12:58 pm – New Delhi, May 13, 2011: Cancer cervix is the commonest cancer among Indian women, every hour it kills almost eight Indian women. It is caused by HPV infection, a common sexually transmitted viral infection. The high risk cofactors in its carcinogenesis are multiple sex partners, […]
Men More Open to HPV Vaccine If Framed As Averting Cancer
THURSDAY, Jan. 13 (HealthDay News) — Men are more willing to receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine when they learn that it also prevents HPV-related cancers as opposed to solely genital warts, according to research published in the August issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. Annie-Laurie McRee, M.P.H., of the University of North Carolina […]
FDA advisory backs Merck & Co's Gardasil for prevention of anal cancer and AIN in both men and women
Posted in ‘thepharmaletter.com’ 19 November 2010 The US Food and Drug Administration’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee has advised that the data presented support an indication for drug giant Merck & Co’s (NYSE: MRK) Gardasil ([Human Papillomavirus Quadrivalent [Types 6, 11, 16, and 18] Vaccine, Recombinant) for the prevention of anal cancer and […]
FDA and CDC to Consider Gardasil for Anal Cancer Prevention
By: Sue Sutter 16 November 2010 A clinical reviewer for the Food and Drug Administration Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research sees no problem with using an anal dysplasia end point, or extrapolating male data to females, to support approval of Merck’s human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil for prevention of anal cancer. Nevertheless, the agency is […]
South Africans develop tool to detect cervical cancer
By: Melody Brandon 05 November 2010 JOHANNESBURG (Xinhua) — A team of South African students from the University of The Witwatersrand (WITS) have used “biological Lego” to develop a tool that is hoped to detect cervical cancer. According to the South African department of Health, cancer of the cervix is the second most common […]
