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Volume 43, Issue 10, Page 8 (October 2009)


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Second HPV Vaccine Backed for Girls, Women

ELIZABETH MECHCATIE

SILVER SPRING, MD. — The majority of a federal advisory panel agreed that the data on a recombinant bivalent human papillomavirus vaccine indicate that the vaccine is safe and effective in preventing cervical cancer and certain precancerous or dysplastic lesions caused by HPV types 16 and 18 in girls and women aged 10-25 years.

PII: S0031-398X(09)70275-9


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