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Cervical Cancer Control In Developing World Feasible For First Time

Main Category: Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine
Article Date: 31 Aug 2008 - 8:00 PDT

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Vaccine monograph unveiled The Vaccine monograph is available for download using the following links:

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Key findings ----------------------------
Article adapted by Medical News Today from original press release.
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A live webinar was broadcast at 15:00 CET on Thursday 28 August 2008. The webinar last for 75 minutes which includes a minimum of 15 minutes for questions. It is available for download following the webinar. Those interested can register here.

Speakers include: Quotes

"Efforts are needed now to adapt the current price of the vaccines so they meet what individual countries can afford; the solution may be tiered pricing according to gross national income per capita and according to the scale of country efforts."

Professor Francesc Xavier Bosch of the Catalan Institute of Oncology in Barcelona, Coordinator of the monograph.

"This new era of cervical cancer presents many opportunities and challenges ahead. There is now realistic hope for controlling this disease where the toll is the highest and we have to seize this opportunity. We in the cervical cancer community will be stepping up all our efforts to help developing countries get this disease under control,"

Isabel Mortara, executive director of the International Union Against Cancer

Source: Emma Ross
International Union Against Cancer In




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