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Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in British women under 35, killing about 1,000 women every year.
Girls between 12 and 18 are to being offered a controversial vaccine to protect them against the sexually-transmitted infection that can lead to cervical cancer, the Government has announced.
However... Controversy has raged about the core programme to routinely vaccinate 12 and 13-year-old girls, with some commentators arguing it encourages under-age sex.
But medics and health campaigners have accused such commentators of wilfully ignoring that teenage sex happens. They have said denying girls an HPV vaccine is morally wrong.
Some parents have already stopped their daughters having the vaccine on moral grounds, reducing the take-up rate in a pilot study to 80 per cent. Two schools out of 36 in the Greater Manchester study also refused to take part for religious reasons.
The vaccine must be administered before a person is infected. Because HPV is so common, that means vaccinating girls before they become sexually active. A study by the Health Protection Agency found up to age 14, less than five per cent of girls carry the HPV. But infection rates rise sharply after that as sexual activity increases.
Edited by Jersey on : 7/20/2008 3:30 PM
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yeah, it's funny to me. would you rather die or admit the possibility of pre-marital sex?
the vaccine actually sounds like a really good thing but it's really hard for me to trust merck and the fda.
Edited by oly on : 7/21/2008 11:59 AM
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Arin said:What they are forgetting to mention is how many problems they have had with the vaccination and how they have no idea what the side effects are short-term or long-term...they just kinda released it, because it sounded like a good idea and are basically using us as test dummies haha. I had a friend rush out and get it and she's had nothing, but problems since...and I know someone else who had it and was just recently diagnosed with HPV, without even being sexually active hahaha. Just because they say it's going to protect you from one thing, does not mean it will or not cause other problems. Lets not forget that HPV can be spread through all kinds of ways, not just direct intercourse...and since it's so easy to pass on most people have it and don't even know it.
I got the shot basically when it first came out and didn't have any bad reaction to it. But just recently I had an abnormal pap smear and may now have cervical cancer (I still haven't gotten my results yet). I get tested annually for STD's and have never once come back posative for anything so I was really confused when my gyn told me I probably had HPV at some point. I did just start sleeping with someone new but honestly wouldn't be surprised if the damn shot gave me HPV. But at this point I guess I'll never know.
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Leila said:Arin said:What they are forgetting to mention is how many problems they have had with the vaccination and how they have no idea what the side effects are short-term or long-term...they just kinda released it, because it sounded like a good idea and are basically using us as test dummies haha. I had a friend rush out and get it and she's had nothing, but problems since...and I know someone else who had it and was just recently diagnosed with HPV, without even being sexually active hahaha. Just because they say it's going to protect you from one thing, does not mean it will or not cause other problems. Lets not forget that HPV can be spread through all kinds of ways, not just direct intercourse...and since it's so easy to pass on most people have it and don't even know it. I got the shot basically when it first came out and didn't have any bad reaction to it. But just recently I had an abnormal pap smear and may now have cervical cancer (I still haven't gotten my results yet). I get tested annually for STD's and have never once come back posative for anything so I was really confused when my gyn told me I probably had HPV at some point. I did just start sleeping with someone new but honestly wouldn't be surprised if the damn shot gave me HPV. But at this point I guess I'll never know.
Yeah thats the worst part is you never really know where it came from, cause you could have had it way before and just didn't know it..because a lot of times it'll just sit there and not cause any abnormal reactions for a long time or ever. However that just makes me hate the damn shot even more hahaha
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delilah said:Doesn't the vaccine only prevent certain strains of HPV? If so, just like the flu shot, there is that chance of being exposed to the strains that the vaccines DON'T prevent. The vaccine is a good idea in theory, but I think it was too rushed and pushed out sooner than it should have been.
There are around 130 different strains of HPV, 30-50 of them are known to typically transmit through sexual contact... but all of them can be transmitted through skin to skin contact AND by inanimate objects. What people don't realise that HPV causes nearly all of the various types of cervical cancer... NOT ALL.
From wikipedia:
Of the more than 100 known HPV types, 37 are known to be transmitted through sexual contact. Infection with sexually transmitted HPVs is very common in adult populations worldwide. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association and the American Social Health Association, by the age of 50 more than 80% of American women will have contracted at least one strain of HPV.[3][4][5] Most people who contract the virus will not develop cervical cancer; however, each year between 250,000 and 1 million American women are diagnosed with cervical dysplasia, which is caused by HPV and is a potential precursor to cervical cancer.[6] Cervical dysplasia may require treatment. In addition, 80% of deaths from cervical cancer occur in poor countries.[7]
For these reasons, some public health officials recommend widespread vaccination against HPV.[8]
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