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Teenage girls to be given cervical cancer jabDate: 21/06/2007 09:14:35
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Girls may soon be given a vaccine that could save them from developing cervical cancer.
The government has called for all girls between 12 and 13-years-old to be given a jab against the virus that causes the cancer, from as early as next autumn.
Although the vaccine is expensive, £250 for three doses over six months, campaigners believe it could dramatically cut the number of women killed by the disease each year.
The virus known to trigger the cancer, human papillomavirus (HPV), is sexually transmitted.
Recent figures estimate 50 per cent of teenager girls in the UK have had sex by the time they are 16-years-old, so campaigners hope that offering the vaccine to girls early on in their adolescent lives they will help to stop the virus before it spreads.
Announcing the programme, Ms Flint said: "Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer of women worldwide. In the UK alone, the lifetime risk of developing cervical cancer is one in 116.
"The benefits of introducing this vaccine will be felt by women and their families for generations to come," she added.
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