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Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in vaccinated young women

scienceJun 18, 2026253,878

A new UK study found cervical cancer deaths fell to zero among young women who received the HPV vaccine offered to school-age girls beginning in 2008. Between 2020 and 2024 no deaths were recorded in women aged 20 to 24, and researchers estimate about 23 deaths would have occurred without vaccination over that period. Girls vaccinated at ages 12 or 13 now face close to zero risk of dying from cervical cancer before age 30, the study reports. The result shows the vaccine's direct life-saving impact and indicates that falling uptake could reverse those gains, making restoration of high coverage a public health priority.

David Blanchflower BSc
@davidbflower.bsky.social

Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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thatswhat-shesaid.bsky.social40

So vaccines HELP?!?! Who knew? Science did-FACTUAL SCIENCE !! (Me screaming inside)

Duwamish Girl 💙💙💙💙24

My daughter was on the trial for this vaccine. After it was over, she found out she had gotten the vaccine and not the placebo. I like to think that she helped make a difference in the world!

kesl59.bsky.social13

Metastatic cervical cancer is a horrific death. I’ve watched it first hand and up close. I know she would have welcomed the vaccine if it had been available. I miss her very much.

iouthanx2.bsky.social12

I made sure my kids received this vaccination when they were at the age required.

Dakyres12

Fuck Cervical Cancer. Glad to see that at least in the future women may not fear the thing that took my closest companion from me.

M. Wilderr9

Let’s not miss this opportunity to tell RFK Jr and other anti-vaxxers to Fuck Completely Off.

Rob Beekmans9

Same here in Netherlands. Report came out last year. I remember a friend of my daughter not getting the vaccine as their parents were those types…

JustLinda8

My MAGA niece became anti-vax during COVID. Her kids were fully vaccinated for school age, at least. I begged her over and over to get her 13-year-old daughter the HPV vaccine. She finally did. If nothing else I say gets through to her, at least my grand-niece won't get the virus

mpjm-cook.bsky.social6

Which is why I had my daughter vaccinated.

Abby D.5

The vaccine isn't that old & neither are the women who got it so is this a big data set? Just wondering. I believe they say prostate cancer will drop as well in men vaccinated.

Tattie Bogle4

And, just for clarification.NHS Scotland has been vaccinating kids since 2008😎 All 11 to 13 year old girls are vaccinated when attending secondary school.

Brenda Nevill 🍉4

So many men were offended by the very existence of this amazing breakthrough. They believe that it will encourage sexual activity.

PJ's Pics 🇦🇺4

Same kind of results in Australia & New Zealand.

Custard the cat4

They should also give it to older women. It still helps and it’s weird that older women have to pay for it themselves.

jaineinchina.bsky.social4

This is the best news story. Science.

🌸 Soft Blossom3

✋ Question! Does it work on older ladies too?

Neşe 🇹🇷💙 🇩🇪💙 🇺🇸3

Say it louder to the anti vaccine crowd in the back! 📣 📢

𝑨𝒏𝒅𝒚3

That such a large number of functioning, procreating and voting adults will scoff at this news is infuriating. Then again, they’ll likely never see it so…

Will Roy3

Vaccines have been around for some time now. Vaccines remain the singer greatest medical breakthrough of all time.

auntieranty.bsky.social3

This is amazing. I remember the controversy when it first came out. Thankfully the parents listened to the doctors.

T. A. D.2

Don’t tell Dr Kennedy Jr!

Bevan Miller2

Noteable philandering MPs in Australia opposed to Gardasil: Barnaby Joyce and Tony Abbott.

Alexander Dudley2

Barnaby Joyce rallied against the HPV vaccine being made easily available.

Gavin Williamson2

No, not the first study of its kind, this from the Lancet in 2024 reports on study carried out in Scotland, which has since offered vaccine to all young women aged 12 to 14 since. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Roderick Godsell2

If only Vaccine haters looked to Science!

Michael Beveridge2

Thank you, Fazer and Zhou.

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