A new study suggests that the number of cases of cervical cancer among women, in their early 20s, is likely to decrease by almost 63 per cent after the administration of HPV vaccine.

The research was published in the British Journal of Cancer and indicates that a decrease will take place in the number of new cases of cervical cancer in the next fifteen years.

Scientists from Queen Mary University say that getting the vaccine at a much younger age can assist in preventing the occurrence of innumerable new cases in the future.

Professor Jack Cuzick, lead author, said that the recent information on the subject is the ‘most realistic estimate’ of the effect of the HPV shot.

One more study in the British Journal of Cancer, conducted in December 2009, suggested that women from poorer backgrounds are more likely to develop cervical cancer as compared to their more affluent counterparts because they have a tendency to indulge in sex at a younger age.

The research said that having sex at a younger age could increase the risk of developing cervical cancer by almost double.