Boots the chemist is offering vaccinations against a sexually transmitted infection that can cause cervical cancer. The pilot scheme will be available to young women who are just outside the age group of a national immunisation campaign.
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One million women in England are putting themselves at risk of cancer by ignoring invitations to have a smear test, latest data has revealed.
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Proudly posing for a photograph with her new husband, Katie Brickell smiles on her wedding day.
It was one of the happiest events of the 25-year-old's life, but her joy masked bleak news.
She has been told she has two years at most to relish her marriage to husband Rolan after she was diagnosed with terminal cervical cancer.
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The NHS is launching a £250,000 scheme to tackle falling numbers of young women in England being screened for cervical cancer.
The announcement comes as a report shows screening rates have declined across the country in the last decade, particularly among women under 35.
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A new row has broken out over the government’s programme of mass vaccination of schoolgirls against cervical cancer after a mother claimed her daughter received the jab without either of them consenting to it.
Debbie Jones has filed an official complaint against health professionals who she claims took the 13-year-old aside at school and administered the injection.
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A mother claims her daughter was injected with the cervical cancer vaccine without her consent.
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The scientists who discovered HIV will share the Nobel prize for medicine with the expert who linked human papilloma virus (HPV) to cervical cancer.\n\nFrench team Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier were recognised for their groundbreaking work in uncovering the virus responsible for Aids.
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The first jabs have been given to Cumbrian schoolgirls in the roll-out of a national vaccination programme to protect from cervical cancer.
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Year eight girls at Trinity School in Carlisle have been among the first in the county to be immunised.
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A group of governors got a rocky reception in the media last week as the debate over a mass immunisation plan against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV) spilled into education.
"The governors of this school are no longer competent to be in post and should be dismissed," wrote a contributor to a newspaper forum after governors of St Monica's RC high school in Bury, Greater Manchester, refused to allow the jabs to take place on school premises.
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Parents were today urged to encourage their daughters to have the cervical cancer vaccine.
A senior public health official said the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine - which is to be given to schoolgirls around the country - will save hundreds of lives
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GOVERNORS who banned girls from having vaccinations to protect against cervical cancer at a school have been criticised for giving out inaccurate information.
Furious parents want St Monica's Catholic High School in Bury to take part in the national scheme that offers girls aged 12 and 13 protection against the sexually-transmitted human papilloma virus (HPV), which is linked to cervical cancer.
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FURIOUS parents are demanding governors of a catholic school reverse their plan to block a national vaccination scheme which will protect girls against cervical cancer.
The M.E.N. revealed governors of St Monica's High School in Bury - who have previously criticised the jab for 'encouraging sexual promiscuity' - don't want pupils vaccinated on school grounds.
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A Roman Catholic school has barred 12 and 13-year-old pupils from being immunized against cervical cancer on its premises.
Governors of St Monica's RC High School in Prestwich, Bury, Greater Manchester, reached the decision even though the vaccination programme has been approved by the Catholic hierarchy in Britain.
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A Catholic school is refusing to give its pupils the cervical cancer vaccine.
Governors at the mixed secondary believe the jab would encourage promiscuity.
Their decision comes despite support for the jab from both the local diocese and the Roman Catholic Church nationally.
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A Roman Catholic school in Greater Manchester has banned its female pupils from receiving the new cervical cancer vaccine on its premises.
Governors at St Monica's High School, in Prestwich, believe the school is "not the right place" for the jabs.
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A CATHOLIC school will become the first in the country to block a project to vaccinate girls against cervical cancer.
Governors of St Monica's High School in Bury - who have previously criticised the jab for `encouraging sexual promiscuity' - have decided they don't want pupils vaccinated on school grounds.
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It is a routine medical procedure that most women hate having - a smear test to check for cervical cancer.
With Big Brother celebrity Jade Goody the most high-profile case of a young woman suffering from the disease, it is clear that ignoring either the warning signs or test results can have dramatic consequences for women aged 25 to 75.
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CASES of cervical cancer could be cut by nearly three-quarters in Cheshire, as a result of a new vaccination programme that is getting under way over the next few weeks.
Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women worldwide and the HPV, or human papillomavirus, vaccine is being offered to all 12 and 13-year-old girls in school year 8.
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Reality TV star Jade Goody is set to undergo a hysterectomy after being diagnosed with cervical cancer.
Around 2,700 women are told they have cervical cancer every year in the UK and it is the second most common cancer in women under 35.
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A LIFE-SAVING vaccine is to be given to Halton schoolgirls in a bid to reduce cervical cancer rates by three-quarters.
Cervarix is being offered to all Year 8 girls this month and within three years all girls aged under 19 will have been offered the vaccine across England.
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