JAMA dermatol: can HPV vaccine also treat cancer? Doctors successfully eliminated skin cancer in a 97 year old woman with HPV vaccine

July 26, 2018 / BIOON / - according to a new study published in JAMA anatomy, 9-valent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine may be the treatment option for patients with skin squamous cell carcinoma who cannot be surgically removed According to her intuition, Anna Nichols, a 97 year old female patient with multiple squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, tried an unusual way: she injected each tumor site of the patient with hmg-e Surprisingly, all the tumors disappeared completely and quickly Nichols first injected the patient's arm twice A few weeks later, the rest of the vaccine was injected directly to other tumor sites The treatment was completed in four times, which took 11 months before and after Within a year after the first intratumoral vaccination, all treated tumors disappeared More importantly, skin cancer did not recur after two years of treatment "We were also surprised that all the tumors had disappeared." Said Nichols "Even tumors that were not vaccinated disappeared This is an unprecedented phenomenon " Nichols said there are still many problems, and more tests need to be designed to reconfirm the efficacy of the vaccine in patients with cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma It is also unclear whether the vaccine will have similar effects on other types of tumors But Nichols believes the HPV vaccine will also be an option for cancer patients who cannot be treated with traditional therapies Two partners in the case report disclosed a patent pending for the HPV vaccine Reference: Anna J Nichols et al Combined systematic and internal administration of human papillomavirus vaccine to treat multiple cutineous basaloid squamous cell carcinomas JAMA dermotol Published online July 3, 2018 Doi: 10.1001/jamadermotol.2018.1748