Human Papilloma virus (HPV) are viruses that cause a common infection of the skin and genitals in men and women. Several types of HPV infection are transmitted by sexual activity and, in women, can infect the cervix (part of the uterus or womb). This infection often goes away by itself, but if it does not go away (this is called persistent infection), it can lead in women over a long period of time to cancer of the cervix. If a woman is not infected by HPV, it is very unlikely that she will get cervical cancer. This study will evaluate the efficacy of GSK Biologicals HPV 16/18 VLP/AS04 vaccine to prevent infection associated cervical pre-cancer and vaccine with HPV 16 or 18 and the vaccine safety, over 48 months, in young adolescents and women of 15/25 years of age at study start. Approximately 18.000 study subjects will either receive the HPV vaccine or a control vaccine (hepatitis A vaccine) administered intramuscularly according to a 0-1-6 month schedule.
The Protocol Posting has been updated in order to comply with the FDA Amendment Act, Sep 2007.
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Histopathologically confirmed CIN2+ associated with HPV-16 or HPV-18 cervical infection detected within the lesional component of the cervical tissue specimen, overall and stratified according to initial (M0) HPV-16 or 18 serostatus. [ Time Frame: At the time of analysis ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Occurrence, intensity, relationship to vaccination & resulting school or work absenteeism of any sol local or gen symptoms & stratified by initial(M0) HPV-16/18 DNA status & acc to HPV-16 or 18 serostatus in a subset of subjects from selected study sites [ Time Frame: Within 7 days after each vaccination dose ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Occurrence, intensity, relationship to vaccination & resulting school or work absenteeism of any unsolicited symptoms & stratified by initial (M0) HPV-16/18 DNA status & according to HPV-16/18 serostatus in a subset of subjects from selected study sites [ Time Frame: Within 30 days after any vaccination ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Occurrence of SAEs stratified by initial (Month 0) HPV-16/18 DNA status and according to HPV-16 or 18 serostatus in all subjects [ Time Frame: Throughout the entire study period (Month 0 to Month 48) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Occurrence of new onset chronic disease stratified by initial (Month 0) HPV-16/18 DNA status and according to HPV 16 or 18 serostatus in all subjects [ Time Frame: Throughout the entire study (Month 0 to 48) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Occurrence of medically significant conditions stratified by initial (Month 0) HPV-16/18 DNA status and according to HPV-16 or 18 serostatus [ Time Frame: Throughout entire study period (Month 0 to Month 48) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Outcome of all pregnancies, overall and stratified by initial (Month 0) HPV-16/18 DNA status and according to HPV-16 or -18 serostatus [ Time Frame: Throughout the entire study period (Month 0 to Month 48) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Persistent infection (12M definition) with HPV-16 or HPV-18, overall and stratified according to initial (Month 0) HPV-16 or HPV-18 serostatus. [ Time Frame: At the time of analysis ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Persistent infection (6M definition) with HPV-16 or HPV-18, overall and stratified according to initial (Month 0) HPV-16 or HPV-18 serostatus. [ Time Frame: At the time of analysis ]
- Persistent infection (6M definition) with oncogenic HPV types. [ Time Frame: At the time of analysis ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Histopathologically confirmed CIN2+ associated with oncogenic HPV types detected within the lesional component of the cervical tissue specimen. [ Time Frame: At the time of analysis ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Histopathologically confirmed CIN1+ associated with HPV-16 or HPV-18 detected within the lesional component of the cervical tissue specimen, overall and stratified according to initial (Month 0) HPV-16 or 18 serostatus. [ Time Frame: At the time of analysis ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Histopathologically confirmed CIN1+ associated with oncogenic HPV types detected within the lesional component of the cervical tissue specimen. [ Time Frame: At the time of analysis ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- HPV-16 and HPV-18 ELISA titers and seroconversion (in the immunogenicity subset according to initial (Month 0) HPV-16 or HPV-18 serostatus [ Time Frame: At the time of analysis ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- HPV-16 and HPV-18 seroconversion and titers (ELISA & V5/J4 monoclonal inhibition test) in vaccine recipients with breakthrough HPV-16 and/or HPV-18 infections & associated neoplasias compared with selected non-cases [ Time Frame: At the time of analysis ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
| Estimated Enrollment: |
18673 |
| Study Start Date: |
May 2004 |
| Estimated Study Completion Date: |
September 2009 |
| Estimated Primary Completion Date: |
September 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
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Group B: Active Comparator
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Biological: Investigational Hepatitis A vaccine
Intramuscular injection, 3 doses
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Group A: Experimental
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Biological: GSK Biologicals' Human Papillomavirus vaccine
Intramuscular injection, 3 doses
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NOTE: Some 178 centers participate in this study. Given that the recruitment is completed, the researchers have listed one center per country in this website. If required, further details of centers available on request.