Douglas Kamerow senior scholar, Robert Graham Center for policy studies in primary care, Washington, DC, professor of family medicine, Georgetown University, and associate editor, The BMJ
Kamerow D.
HPV vaccine: effective but underused in the US
BMJ 2016; 353 :i2060
doi:10.1136/bmj.i2060
HPV vaccinations and breast cancer
Dear Editors,
It would be interesting to follow all these vaccinated women to examine breast cancer incidence.
Since HPV infections are associated with breast cancers[references below], effective vaccinations might prove protective!
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Competing interests: No competing interests