Daughters listen to mother on cervical cancer prevention

Mothers who undergo cervical cancer screening are more likely to ensure their daughters are vaccinated against the disease, says research published in the European Journal of Cancer.

The researchers from the University of Manchester found that teenage girls were more than three times more likely to have had the HPV vaccination if their mothers had undergone cervical screening in the past five years.

Daughters of mothers who had previously received an abnormal result were also more likely to be vaccinated.

The researchers linked the cervical screening records and HPV vaccination records of 117,000 girls in the north-east of England.

The data showed that uptake of HPV vaccination among 12-13-year-olds in those whose mothers had never been screened for cervical cancer was 58% compared with almost 84% whose mothers had been screened for cervical cancer in the past five years.

Mothers who had personally decided to stop screening were less likely to have vaccinated their daughters than those who had stopped for medical reasons.

The authors said: ?Daughters of mothers who are not engaged with preventive services are less likely to be vaccinated and may be less likely to engage with screening. This makes mothers central to health interventions to promote both cervical screening and HPV vaccination.?

Source: http://www.onmedica.com/newsArticle.aspx?id=e72afcd3-c2b3-4787-b94f-9db842e865ec

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