DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SR. MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A few years ago, Rose Dennis, a 53-year-old healthy woman, went in for a routine pap smear, one of the most common procedures done in the world. As she felt fine, she really thought nothing of it until she got a life-altering call from her doctor. She had cervical cancer.
ROSE DENNIS, CERVICAL CANCER SURVIVOR: During that time, it was -- I don't want to really remember it. It was just horrible. GUPTA: Dennis is one of thousands of women in this country to suffer from cervical cancer, which is actually called by a virus called human papilloma virus, or HPV. It is often transmitted sexually.
Now, this cancer is curable if treated early. But now there may be a way to prevent the disease from ever occurring in the first place, a vaccine.
It wasn't easy to develop such a vaccine, as there are more than 70 different types of HPV. But researchers honed in on two of them, number 16 and 18, because those are the most dangerous types.
DR. KEVIN AULT, EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: In this particular vaccine there are four types of human papilloma virus that are covered. They're probably the four most common types. Sixteen and 18 are responsible for about 70 percent of cervical cancers.
GUPTA: Best news of all, the vaccine prevented 100 percent of those two strains.
AULT: We don't think of most vaccines as being 100 percent effective, so I think that's good news overall, and certainly a pleasant surprise to those of us who have been doing this research for a number of years.
GUPTA: The vaccine is called Gardasil, and Merck and Company Inc., the manufacturer, says it plans to apply for a license before the end of the year. Now, if approved, this vaccine may become extremely common, recommended to all women in their teenage years before they become sexually active.
Rose Dennis had no such option. She had to endure a hysterectomy, chemotherapy and radiation to become cancer free. For her, and possibly thousands of others, a vaccine would make all the difference.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, reporting.
ROSE DENNIS, CERVICAL CANCER SURVIVOR: During that time, it was -- I don't want to really remember it. It was just horrible. GUPTA: Dennis is one of thousands of women in this country to suffer from cervical cancer, which is actually called by a virus called human papilloma virus, or HPV. It is often transmitted sexually.
Now, this cancer is curable if treated early. But now there may be a way to prevent the disease from ever occurring in the first place, a vaccine.
It wasn't easy to develop such a vaccine, as there are more than 70 different types of HPV. But researchers honed in on two of them, number 16 and 18, because those are the most dangerous types.
DR. KEVIN AULT, EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: In this particular vaccine there are four types of human papilloma virus that are covered. They're probably the four most common types. Sixteen and 18 are responsible for about 70 percent of cervical cancers.
GUPTA: Best news of all, the vaccine prevented 100 percent of those two strains.
AULT: We don't think of most vaccines as being 100 percent effective, so I think that's good news overall, and certainly a pleasant surprise to those of us who have been doing this research for a number of years.
GUPTA: The vaccine is called Gardasil, and Merck and Company Inc., the manufacturer, says it plans to apply for a license before the end of the year. Now, if approved, this vaccine may become extremely common, recommended to all women in their teenage years before they become sexually active.
Rose Dennis had no such option. She had to endure a hysterectomy, chemotherapy and radiation to become cancer free. For her, and possibly thousands of others, a vaccine would make all the difference.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, reporting.
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