antihuman papilloma virus hpv

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anti-human papilloma virus (hpv)
randomized, double-blind placebo controlled phase
II clinical study double-blind patients,
doctors, and (most) researchers studying
the data do not know who received medication and
who didn't placebo usually glucose, makes
you think you are taking the drug so as to test
for psychololgical effects ie, thinking it will
work phase II clinical study second phase of
preparing a drug for market phase I- is the drug
safe? what concentrations are safe for
people? phase II- effectiveness test does the
drug do what you want it to? usually
relatively small phase III- large scale study
is this drug good, how safe is it, is it
better than what's already available
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virus-like particle artificial construct of the
L1 major coat protein of 4 different hpv virus
types (ie. quadravalent) produced in
yeast advantage is that there is never any virus
present so is much safer than any killed or
weakened virus vaccines adjuvant something
given along with another thing often to help
encourage an immune response CIN cervical
intraepithelial neoplasia (ie. type of
cancer) SIL squamous intraepithelial lesion (ie.
pre-cancerous lesion) colposcopy exam where
doctors analyze tissue and epithelial cells of
the cervix for statistics, CI confidence
interval ie. likelyhood of being correct