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A mother's attitude towards cervical cancer screening influences decisions to vaccinate daughters against the cancer, researchers in Manchester say.
Data from 117,000 girls was analysed.
Teenagers were at least three times more likely to have had the HPV vaccination if their mothers had been tested in the past five years.
The study, in the European Journal of Cancer, also showed daughters were more likely to have been vaccinated if their mothers received an abnormal result.
The cervical cancer vaccine was introduced in the UK in 2008 and is offered to girls with parental consent in their second year of secondary school with catch-up campaigns in older teenagers.
It provides immunity to the sexually transmitted infection responsible for most cases of cervical cancer.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20983325
Data from 117,000 girls was analysed.
Teenagers were at least three times more likely to have had the HPV vaccination if their mothers had been tested in the past five years.
The study, in the European Journal of Cancer, also showed daughters were more likely to have been vaccinated if their mothers received an abnormal result.
The cervical cancer vaccine was introduced in the UK in 2008 and is offered to girls with parental consent in their second year of secondary school with catch-up campaigns in older teenagers.
It provides immunity to the sexually transmitted infection responsible for most cases of cervical cancer.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20983325