Vaccines Prevent, But Can’t Treat HPV: Study

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Vaccines designed to prevent infection from two strains of the human papillomavirus virus that cause most cases of cervical cancer offer no benefit as a treatment for women who are already infected, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday."You should not get the vaccine because you want to treat an existing infection,” said Allen Hildesheim of the National Cancer Institute, whose study appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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