Women Snub HPV Vaccination

PHILADELPHIA -- Less than a third of women who start out getting the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine wind up receiving all three necessary doses, researchers said here. In a single-center study of almost 10,000 women eligible for vaccination -- those ages 9 to 26 -- only 30.78 percent of the women who started the HPV vaccine regimen actually completed the required three-dose series, Kathleen Tracy of the University of Maryland and colleagues reported at the American Association for Cancer...Full Story