Kennedy's attacks on HPV vaccines could cause cancer to rise

Kennedy's attacks on HPV vaccines could cause cancer to rise

Cervical cancer, the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide, kills about 350,000 people annually — but for the last two decades, there’s been a robust, cheap and simple way of preventing much of it: the HPV vaccine. For nearly two decades the shot has shown that girls who are vaccinated under the age of 16 are 80 percent less likely to develop cervical cancer. Yet, under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadershi…