A study showed a reduction of cervical cancer mortality in young women in England and links this to the vax programme introduced in 2008 (reaching 80-90% of 12-13 yo since) with a catch up for 14-18 yo up to 2010
I had a simple look at (smoothed) trends: Looks pretty convincing
Jean Fisch
Link to the paper
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com
Our findings provide the first robust national-level evidence, albeit observational,
that high HPV vaccination coverage is associated with a substantial reduction in cervical
cancer deaths. This is sh...
P2S: So just in case it's not clear what I have done
a) I took deaths per NHS mortality data and population per ONS
b) I calculated mortality rates by age (corrected for leap years)
c) I rebased all these rates to the 06-08 average and looked at how 3y average evolved
That's it