Children vaccinated for HPV have close to zero risk of dying from cervical cancer before age 30, study suggests
Researchers said falling vaccination rates could slow progress as the first study of its kind links the jab to a 62% drop in deaths.
- Between 2020 and 2024, England recorded zero cervical cancer deaths in women aged 20 to 24, marking the first time this occurred over a five-year period, according to research published in The Lancet on Thursday.
- The dramatic decline is attributed to the human papillomavirus vaccine, which has been offered to school-age girls in England since 2008 and boys since 2019 to prevent cancer-causing infections.
- Lead researcher Professor Peter Sasieni from Queen Mary University of London called the reduction the "tip of the iceberg," estimating the vaccine has already prevented nearly 200 cervical cancer deaths.
- Despite this success, UK Health Security Agency data shows only 76% of girls in England were vaccinated by age 15 in 2024-25, falling well below the 90% World Health Organization target.
- To reach the government's pledge of eliminating cervical cancer by 2040, Cancer Research UK chief executive Michelle Mitchell urged "targeted action to reach communities where uptake is the lowest.
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The introduction of HPV vaccines in England has the risk for young women to die of cervical cancer, according to a study to close to zero.
Cancers of the cervix are almost always due to HPV infections: viruses that are sexually transmitted. On the other hand, there is a vaccination. Study data from England show how good it works.
For the first time in Britain, no woman between 20 and 24 died from cervical cancer. The reason: the introduction of HPV vaccination.
Cervical cancer deaths for vaccinated young women fall to zero in England
The HPV vaccine for cervical cancer has reduced the risk of dying from the disease before the age of 30 in England to almost zero, the first study of its kind showed Thursday.Between 2020 and 2024, no women in the country aged between 20 and 24 died from cervical cancer, according to the study published...
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vijesti.meA new study reveals that hundreds of lives have been saved since the HPV vaccine was offered to school-aged girls in 2008.
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