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    CDC urges doctors to recommend HPV vaccine

    Federal health officials urged doctors on Thursday to become more active in recommending the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to parents of adolescents. The sexually transmitted disease is blamed for an estimated 26,200 new cases of cancer each year – 17,400 of which are women.The announcement came as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released results of a survey on HPV vaccine coverage among girls aged 13 through 17. The survey results, published in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), showed that nearly 54 percent of girls in this age group have received at least one of the three recommended doses of HPV vaccine.That figure marks a dramatic increase from the 25 percent coverage reported in 2007, the year after public health officials began recommending routine HPV vaccination for girls at the ages of 11 or 12.However, the survey suggests the trend began to level off in 2011, when 53 percent of girls in this age group had received at least one d...

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