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Cervical cancer vaccinations

Alistair MooneyAlistair Mooney|10:00 UK time, Monday, 1 September 2008

Scottish schoolgirls are this week starting to get vaccinated against cervical cancer.

girl getting a jag

Find out more about the immunisation programme and the vaccine, as well as a personal account from Denise Burgin whose daughter Shelley died shortly after being diagnosed with cervical cancer aged just 27.

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