Skin tumor vaccine shows promise in wild mice, rising hope for transplant patients
Saturday, February 22, 2014 - 06:31
in Health & Medicine
Papillomaviruses (linked to cervical cancer when they infect the mucosal tissue in the female reproductive tract) can also infect normal skin, where they cause warts and possibly non-melanoma skin cancer, mostly in immune-suppressed organ transplant patients. A new article suggests that vaccination might prevent virus-associated benign and malignant skin tumors.