iStock/ThinkstockBy DR. JENNIFER ASHTON, ABC News Senior Medical Contributor
For the last 10 years, health experts have urged parents to get their kids the HPV vaccine. Now, a new study may add ammunition to this effort.
Researchers looking at data on pap tests in New Mexico found that between 2007 and 2014 the rates of all stages of pre-cancerous cervical conditions in women declined by 9 percent, presumably attributable to more of these young women receiving the HPV vaccine.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that both girls and boys get vaccinated against HPV. Even though most people who get exposed to HPV do not go on to get cancer, many of these cancer cases could be prevented with the vaccine.
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