Recommendations on Human Papilloma Virus Vaccination to Reduce the Incidence of Cervical Cancer: Yes or no in the Current Situation

Hazar, Narjes; Mousavi, Seyed Alireza; Hosseini, Saeed

Volume 13, Issue 3 ( September 2021 2021) Iranian Journal of Blood and Cancer 2021, 13(3): 102-104 | Back to browse issues page

Recommendations on Human Papilloma Virus Vaccination to Reduce the Incidence of Cervical Cancer: Yes or no in the Current Situation

Narjes Hazar¹

, Seyed Alireza Mousavi²

, Saeed Hosseini ^*

1- Health Monitoring Research Center, School of Medicine, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
2- Infectious diseases research center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
3- Center for Healthcare Data Modeling, Departments of biostatistics and Epidemiology ,School of public health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran , saeed.hosseini2014@gmail.com

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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.

Keywords: HPV vaccine, Cervical cancer, Iran

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: Letter to Editor | Subject: Adults Hematology & Oncology
Received: 2021/07/4 | Accepted: 2021/09/22 | Published: 2022/02/13

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