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health inequalities
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Generation X will experience higher rates of cancer than earlier generations
At age 60 members of Generation X, defined as people born between 1965 and 1980, are projected to have higher rates of cancer than Baby Boomers, born between 1946 and 1964. The US modelling study, published online in JAMA OpenNetwork,…
HPV vaccination programme will reduce cervical cancer health inequalities
England's HPV vaccination programme is helping to close inequalities in cervical cancer, cutting incidence rates across the socioeconomic spectrum. The study, published in the BMJ, found that the vaccination programme was associated with a substantially reduced incidence of cervical cancer…