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Volume 356:1905-1908 May 10, 2007 Number 19 Next

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Cancer prevention has fallen victim to the culture wars. Throughout the United States, state legislatures are scrambling to respond to the availability of Merck's human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, Gardasil, and to the likely introduction of GlaxoSmithKline's not-yet-approved HPV vaccine, Cervarix, which have been shown to be effective in preventing infection with HPV strains that cause about 70% of cases of cervical cancer. At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has voted unanimously to recommend that girls 11 and 12 years of age receive the vaccine, and the CDC has added Gardasil . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Professor Charo is a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

An interview with Professor Charo can be heard at www.nejm.org.

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