ext_155441 ([identity profile] dbang.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] topaz 2005-10-06 07:57 pm (UTC)

Awesome.

Just to nit-pick (not so much you as the report), it proved 100% effective against cervical cancers caused by HPV 16 and 18, which cause 70% of all cervical cancer (according to the article). That means it was less than 100% effective at blocking all cervical cancer. (They didn't say whether it had any impact on non-HPV-16/18 cancers at all, only that such cancers did occur in vaccinated women.)

Not complaining, still good news, but that 100% number seems misleading to me.

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