en Adults Hematology & Oncology Adults Hematology & Oncology نامه به ویراستار Letter to Editor <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height:2;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:14px;">Cervical cancer is the fourth most common malignancy in women all over the world.1, 2 Ninety-five percent of cervical cancers occur as a result of persistent infection of the lower genital tract with the Human Papillomavirus (HPV).3 Two HPV types-16 and 18-are responsible for 71% of cervical cancer cases. There are some ways to prevent this highly contagious virus and we want to present some of them.</span></span></span></p> HPV vaccine, Cervical cancer, Iran 102 104 http://ijbc.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-642-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Narjes Hazar Narjeshazar@yahoo.com 10031947532846009097 10031947532846009097 No Health Monitoring Research Center, School of Medicine, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran Seyed Alireza Mousavi musavialireza104@gmail.com 10031947532846009098 10031947532846009098 No Infectious diseases research center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran Saeed Hosseini saeed.hosseini2014@gmail.com 10031947532846009099 10031947532846009099 Yes Center for Healthcare Data Modeling, Departments of biostatistics and Epidemiology ,School of public health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran