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Risk factors, sexual history shouldn't guide HPV vaccination

From: UMHealthSystem
Type: Patients & People
Joined: March 2008
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Added: March 18, 2008 | Time 02:51 | Views: 101

A new study from the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital finds that using risk factors -- including a woman's sexual history - to target specific populations for HPV vaccination is not effective, and would exclude as many as 80 percent of women who could benefit the most from the vaccine.

Topics: Pediatric Immunizations and Vaccines

Tags: cervical cancer, genital warts, hpv, human papilloma virus, pap smear, sex, University of Michigan, women

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