- June 30, 2013
- Posted by: Spotscreen
- Category: News
Exert from onlinenews.com.au
The leading Scottish doctor who created a jab to prevent cervical cancer says a vaccine to stop people getting skin cancer is now on the horizon. Professor Ian Frazer is involved in research to find viruses that could play a role in the development of skin cancers and said the vaccine could be available in ten years.
The Glasgow-born researcher, now based in Australia, said that once the viruses had been identified, experts hoped the drug could be developed to target the infections.
Scotland, along with other parts of the UK, has seen a huge increase in skin cancer cases in the past decade. Cases of malignant melanoma – the most deadly form of skin cancer – have gone up more than 50 per cent in ten years, with more than 1,200 cases diagnosed each year.
