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CRUK: A Cancer Research UK-funded study, by scientists at the University of Oxford, has found that many girls & their parents do not understand the importance of attending cervical screening after they have had the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine.
 
The NHS HPV vaccination programme was launched in autumn 2008, giving girls aged 12 to 13 the chance to have the vaccine, which prevents at least 7 out of 10 cancers of the cervix. But as the vaccine does not protect against all cancer-causing strains of the virus, these girls should still go for cervical screening when they're older - even if they've had all three doses of the vaccine.
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CRUKCancer Research UK-funded scientists have taken a further step to identifying men at a greater risk of prostate cancer with the discovery of 7 new variants in the human genome that increase the chances of developing the disease.
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