A new study sheds light on a counter-intuitive phenomenon:White, well-to-do teens are less likely to get an HPV vaccination than girls inlow-income, predominantly minority communities.
The research, published last week in the medical journal,Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, foundthat 53 percent of teenage girls received a dose of theHPV vaccine in 2011 and 2012.
The rate was highest among girls in predominantly Latinocommunities, 69 percent of whom received a dose of the vaccine,which is credited with reducing the risk of cervical cancer causedby HPV.
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