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What Treats Hpv?
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A recent cervical cancer vaccine has been all over the news lately, both for its potential breakthrough impact on the lives of young women, and its politics. A vaccine for cervical cancer, administered to young women prior to their most sexually active years, would prevent them from getting the human papilloma virus (HPV), a virus that can cause cervical cancer, the number-two cancer killer in women, after breast cancer.
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