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The availability of a "cancer vaccine" has elicited enormous enthusiasm from the medical community and the public, culminating in advocacy for mandatory vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) and a recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that 30 million girls and women between the ages of 11 and 26 years in the United States be vaccinated.¹ Previous reports^2,3 showed a remarkable 100% efficacy of a quadrivalent vaccine targeting HPV types 6, 11, 16, and 18 on outcomes related to vaccine HPV types in women with no evidence of previous exposure to those types. Since HPV types 16 . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences (G.F.S., K.S.-M.), Epidemiology and Biostatistics (G.F.S.), and the Comprehensive Cancer Center (G.F.S., K.S.-M.), University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco.

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N Engl J Med 2007; 357:1154-1156, Sep 13, 2007. Correspondence

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