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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mark Waghorn

Why 150,000 schoolchildren missed a cancer-preventing vaccine last year

Kirsty O’Connor/PA Wire

Almost 150,000 schoolchildren went without a single dose of the HPV vaccine last year, leaving them at risk of life-threatening cancers.

The jab is offered to girls and boys aged 11 to 13 to prevent mouth, anal, cervical and penile tumours.

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