Fewer than half of Texas doctors do not routinely recommend HPV vaccinations for their patients, according to an article published earlier this month at Med Page Today. Of 1,122 survey participants, just 48.5% said they always recommend HPV vaccines to girls, Jessica Kahn, MD, of the University of Cincinnati, and colleagues reported in the August issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.
“Two-thirds of respondents said they are likely to recommend vaccination to boys if the vaccine is approved for that indication,” noted the article. “A majority disagreed with mandated vaccination. ‘Half of the physicians in this study did not follow current recommendations for universal HPV vaccination of 11- to 12-year-old girls,’ the authors concluded.’”
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