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Cancer Vaccines
Investigators at Children's Hospital zero in on cancer vaccines
September 17th, 2008
"Objective and Participants: In 2006, the authors examined intention to receive an HPV vaccine among 340 college students. A total of 138 men and 202 women completed questionnaires," investigators in the United States report. "The authors measured intention by asking participants how likely they would be to accept an HPV vaccine that prevented against (1) all HPV, (2) cervical cancer but not genital warts, (3) genital warts but not cervical cancer, and (4) both genital warts and cervical cancer. Men and women reported high intent to receive an HPV vaccine, although women did so at a significantly higher rate (77.5% vs 88.6%, respectively; p<.01). Men were less...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-09-17)
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