cervical cancer
The HPV vaccine could prevent more than 100,000 cancers in the next 50 years, estimates the University of Warwick.
Vaccinations for the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) have been so successful at reducing new infections of the disease, researchers are hopeful that there will be a corresponding dramatic drop in cervical cancer cases in high-income countries. “HPV is found in almost 100% of cervical cancer cases,” said Mélanie Drolet, who conducted a study into rates of cancer in countries which have implemented vaccination programmes.
But women should still be attending their smear tests.
Two in five did not receive their results within the recommended two weeks.
"We’re really very excited by this study."
When I was diagnosed in 2018, I didn’t know there was a vaccine and certainly didn’t know that HPV causes cervical cancer
The vaccine "should greatly reduce the incidence of cervical cancer".
On 22 March 2009, TV personality Jade Goody died from cervical cancer. Before she died, she was a vocal campaigner for smear tests and encouraged thousands of women to go to screenings. But a decade later, the number of women going to screenings is at a 20-year-low and two women are still dying from the disease every day.
Women think HPV is 'dirty' or 'embarrassing', when it's actually extremely common.
Women have been forced to wait longer than the recommended 14 days for their results.