Cervical cancer injection | Vaccination against cervical cancer

The vaccination program against cervical cancer promises to be one of medicines biggest breakthrough developments in the last twenty years or more.

A cervical cancer injection - or vaccination against cervix cancer - has been developed and shown to be effective against the HPV virus which causes the condition.

Several countries have already completed mass vaccination campaigns of young women in the hope that cervical cancer will be nearly eradicated in coming generations. There is even some debate about extending the vaccination offer to young men - some of whom also carry the HPV virus.

So far the cervical cancer injections have gone smoothly with many millions of young women now immune to HPV. Few side effects have been recorded and so far the outlook seems bright.