CERVICAL cancer vaccination is more effective than screening for the disease, according to the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who discovered the agent that causes the disease.

THE discovery of the Aids virus and the role of viruses in cervical cancer has led to Germany’s Harald zur Hausen and French researchers Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier sharing the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine.

Germany’s Harald zur Hausen and French researchers Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine today for discovering the Aids virus and the role of viruses in cervical cancer.