Author: McKinley Corbley / Source: Good News Network
After 20 years of research, a team of scientists from Mexico has succeeded in curing 29 patients of HPV.
Human papillomavirus is a sexually-transmitted disease that is one of the main causes of cervical cancer in women. Though it is the most common STD, there has not been a cure for the infection – until now.
Scientists from the Mexico Polytechnic Institute (IPN) developed the treatment using a non-invasive procedure called photodynamic therapy. In addition to treating the virus, the researchers used the procedure to treat premalignant cancer tumors that form during the early stages of cervical cancer.
The treatment was delivered to female patients who had either been diagnosed with two HPV strains commonly associated with cancer, premalignant lesions, or both.
The lead researcher behind the treatment, Eva Ramón Gallegos, has spent over two decades researching various applications of photodynamic therapy in order to find the most effective combination of chemicals to treat HPV and cervical cancer. For this particular trial, she applied a drug called aminolevulinic delta acid to the cervixes of the patients.
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