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Cancer Vaccines
Studies from Yeditepe University provide new data on cancer vaccines
March 25th, 2008
According to recent research from Istanbul, Turkey, "We aimed to evaluate the knowledge and interest level of Turkish women about HPV, HPV vaccines and cervical cancer using a questionaire. A 25-item questionnaire was distributed to women in three different cities located in separate sociocultural locations." "At the closure of the study 143 women responded and returned the survey. Of the participants 62.2% (89) had a university degree, 36.4% (52) a high school education, and 1.4% (2) had lower school degrees; 98.5% of the women would consent to have their daughter vaccinated for HPV and 94.7% would consent to have their son vaccinated if vaccine provided prevention...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-03-25)
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