We have a vaccine for six cancers; why are less than half of kids getting it?
- Written by Electra D. Paskett, Professor of Cancer Research, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University
Early in our careers, few of us imagined a vaccine could one day prevent cancer. Now there is a vaccine that keeps the risk of developing six Human Papillomavirus (HPV)-related cancers at bay, but adoption of it has been slow and surprising low.
Although it’s been available for more than a decade, as of 2014 only 40 percent of girls had...
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