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HPV vaccinesearch for term

In 2006 an HPV vaccine was approved by the FDA for girls/women 9 through 26 years of age.

The HPV vaccine helps protect against the two types of HPV that cause approximately 70% of all cervical cancers. (It also protects against two types of HPV that cause genital warts.) However the vaccine doesn’t protect against all types of HPV that can cause cervical cancer. It also doesn’t protect you if you already have the two types of HPV vaccine in your system.

Even if you have the HPV vaccine, you still must be tested like everyone else. For more information go to www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/STDFact-HPV-vaccine-young-women.htm