How effective is Gardasil? What exactly will it protect me or my daughter from?
The extensive clinical trials on Gardasil — which have involved more than 20,000 women in the high-risk age group (between 12 and 26 years) — have shown “that there’s a very high level of protection (nearly 100%) from genital warts and precancerous changes caused by the 4 types of HPV it covers,” says Kevin Ault, M.D., an associate professor of gynecology and obstetrics at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta and a leader of one of Merck’s Gardasil trials there. Although current studies have not followed the girls and women long enough to know whether cervical cancers develop, he points out that almost everybody who has precancerous lesions will eventually develop cervical cancer. This implies that the vaccine guards against the future development of the cancer, he says. In addition, a study presented at a June 2006 meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) found that Gardasil provides protection against vaginal and vulvar cancers, which are associated w
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