Dr. Mahbubur Rahman and his colleagues at UTMB attending the annual meeting of the American Society of Preventive Oncology presented data showing that minority adolescent girls are less likely than non-Hispanic white girls to receive a physician recommendation for HPV vaccination. Provider recommendation is the best predictor of vaccine uptake; adolescent girls who receive a provider recommendation are five times more likely to start the HPV vaccine series than are those without a recommendation, the researchers said.