HPV Vaccination and the Risk of Invasive Cervical Cancer

Jiayao Lei; Alexander Ploner; K. Miriam Elfström; Jiangrong Wang; Adam Roth; Fang Fang; Karin Sundström; Joakim Dillner; Pär Sparén

doi:10.1056/nejmoa1917338

Abstract

Among Swedish girls and women 10 to 30 years old, quadrivalent HPV vaccination was associated with a substantially reduced risk of invasive cervical cancer at the population level. (Funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research and others.).

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MedicineCervical cancerVaccinationIncidence (geometry)Confidence intervalPopulationRate ratioDemographyObstetricsGynecologyHPV infectionCancerInternal medicineImmunologyEnvironmental health

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Year: 2020
Type: article
Volume: 383
Issue: 14
Pages: 1340-1348
Citations: 1309
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                                    Jiayao Lei, 
                                
                                    Alexander Ploner, 
                                
                                    K. Miriam Elfström
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2020). 
                            HPV Vaccination and the Risk of Invasive Cervical Cancer. 
                            New England Journal of Medicine
                            , 383
                            (14)
                            , 1340-1348.
                            https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1917338
                        

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DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa1917338