A VACCINATION programme to help protect girls from cervical cancer has been hailed as a success so far.
The Dorset Primary Care Trust said that more than 90 per cent of parents have given consent for their daughters to receive the vaccination in the first few days of the scheme.
All girls in the current school Year 8 are being offered the vaccination to protect them from the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV).
Strains of HPV are estimated to cause around 70 per cent of cervical cancer cases.
The aim is to ensure that by 2010 all girls under the age of 18 will have been offered the immunisation.
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