A Prize for Cancer Prevention.

Varmus, Harold · Cell · 2017

editorial · Level V

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Abstract

This year's Lasker-DeBakey Prize for Clinical Research to Douglas Lowy and John Schiller celebrates the science behind one of the greatest advances in the history of cancer research: the development of vaccines that prevent infection and thus prevent tumor induction by pathogenic strains of human papilloma virus (HPV).

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