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 Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:56 pm Post subject: Skin cancer vaccine 'welcome news' |
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November 16, 2008 - 5:07PM
Cancer Council Australia has welcomed the announcement of a possible vaccine for skin cancer as groundbreaking.
Former Australian of the Year Ian Frazer is on the verge of creating the world's first skin cancer vaccine.
The pioneering scientist, who discovered a vaccine for cervical cancer, revealed at the Australian Health and Medical Research Congress in Brisbane on Sunday that a skin cancer vaccine could be ready within the next five to 10 years.
Clinical trials are set to start next year.
CCA chief executive officer Ian Olver said it was exciting news with huge implications.
"It's an exciting announcement and it's great to see an Australian at the forefront of skin cancer research," Professor Olver said.
"If the [human] trials are successful it will give us one extra layer of prevention but it doesn't replace the other preventative measures of slip, slop, slap, wearing sunglasses and going into the shade."
More than 380,000 Australians are diagnosed with skin cancer, with 1600 people per year dying of the disease.
Professor Olver said the vaccine was an extension of Professor Frazer's world-first vaccine for cervical cancer that targets the papillomavirus.
He said papillomavirus was also the trigger for squamous cell skin cancer, a common skin infection that turns abnormal cells into cancer.
Professor Olver said the potential vaccine was not a solution for every skin cancer, including the deadliest of them all, melanomas.
"It is timely this has been announced during National Skin Cancer Action Week," Professor Olver said. "Sadly teenagers are still not getting the [sun awareness] message.
"One in four teenagers get sunburnt during summer and 29 per cent said they simply forgot the preventative measures."
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