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Date:4/30/2008

ent of vaccination may increase the acceptability of the HPV vaccine among parents and help to maximize HPV vaccine uptake," says Dr. Kahn. "A comprehensive approach to enhancing parental acceptability of HPV vaccination would involve the combined efforts of clinicians, health educators, advocacy groups, and public health personnel."

For the study, Dr. Kahn and her colleagues surveyed 10,521 mothers of adolescents enrolled in the Growing Up Today Study (GUTS), a longitudinal study of the children of mothers participating in the Nurses Health Study II (NHS 2), between June 2006 and February 2007. The survey assessed demographic factors, gynecologic history, communication with daughters about Pap screening, and mothers' beliefs about Pap testing and about HPV vaccines as well as intention to vaccinate daughters of varying ages. Researchers also looked at mothers' intention to get the vaccine themselves and found that 48 percent intend to be vaccinated.

Dr. Kahn's study was funded by the American Cancer Society and included researchers from Indiana University, the University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston and Harvard University Medical School. The senior author was Lindsay Frazier, M.D., Children's Hospital Boston.

The PAS meeting is the largest international meeting focused on research in child health. It is sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Pediatric Society, the Society for Pediatric Research, and the Ambulatory Pediatric Association.

BACKGROUND ON HPV: An estimated 6.2 million people 14 to 44 years old are newly infected with HPV each year in the United States, and of these infections, 74 percent occur among those 15 to 24 years old, according to the CDC. Infection with one of the more than 100 types of HPV usually causes no symptoms and resolves on its own, but a proportion of women infected with specific cancer-associated types may develop cervical cancer. Two of these types, 16 and 18, cause about 70 per
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