Posted AT 2:52 PM EDT on 05/05/08
B.C. to offer free HPV vaccine to Grade 6 girls
Victoria — British Columbia has become the latest province to offer schoolgirls a vaccine against a sexually transmitted disease that causes most cervical cancers.
The voluntary immunizations for the human papilloma virus will be available to girls in Grade 6 and Grade 9, with their parents' consent, the province announced Monday.
HPV is the second most common type of cancer for women between the ages of 20 and 40.
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