==Medical uses== Gardasil is a prophylactic HPV vaccine, meaning that it is designed to prevent HPV infections. For maximum effect, it is recommended that girls receive the vaccine prior to becoming sexually active. However, women who were already infected with one or more of the four HPV types targeted by the vaccine (6, 11, 16, or 18) were prote...
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(from the article `Health and Disease`) Controversy surrounded the use of a vaccine, Gardasil, that helped prevent cervical cancer, the second most common cancer in women worldwide. ... In June the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licensed the vaccine Gardasil against four types of human papillomavirus (HPV)—6, 11, 16, and 1...
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A vaccine used to prevent anal, cervical, vulvar, and vaginal cancer caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18 and genital warts caused by HPV types 6 and 11. It is also used to prevent lesions that are caused by these viruses and that can lead to anal, cervical, vulvar, or vaginal cancer. Gardasil is used in males and females aged 9-26 ...
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