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Thu 08 Aug 2008Experts warn on cervical cancer vaccination plan
HEALTH AUTHORITIES and governments must be cautious about introducing large-scale vaccination programmes against cervical cancer, international experts have warned.
In research with direct relevance to this month's decision by Minister for Health Mary Harney to give the go-ahead to the introduction of a cervical cancer vaccination programme next year, public health doctors from Harvard University in Boston and Oslo in Norway have warned there was a need for more certain answers to issues surrounding the vaccination of adolescent girls against the human papilloma virus (HPV), which causes cancer of the cervix.
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