I'm not really sure how I feel about this vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease. Yeah it can cause cervical cancer, but AIDS will end you life. Both can be transmitted sexually, but I find it hard to believe there haven't come up with a vaccine for AIDS yet. HPV has no treatment at all and I can't help but feel the FDA is monopolizing this vaccine only because they can't get more money based on someone’s promiscuity vs. non sexually transmitted diseases - like with Alzheimer's.
Like I said I'm not totally sure how I feel about this vaccine for HPV yet. But these are some thing I do know:
# Facts about HPV:
One out of every 1000 women with HPV will get cervical cancer.
Human papillomavirus (pronounced pap-ih-lo-ma-vye-rus) is also called HPV. It is a virus that includes more than 100 types, over 30 of which are sexually transmitted.
Genital HPV is passed by skin-to-skin and genital contact, primarily during vaginal and anal intercourse. It might also be possible to pass it during oral sex.
There is no treatment or cure for HPV.
HPV is just as common in men as in women. Fortunately, HPV rarely causes serious health problems in men, with the exception of anal cancer in men who have sex with men. There is no test for HPV in men.
# Facts about Cervical Cancer:
Other factors, besides HPV, can raise the risk of developing cervical cancer.
Diethylstilbestrol (DES) may increase the risk of a rare form of cervical cancer and certain other cancers of the reproductive system in daughters exposed to this drug before birth. DES was given to some pregnant women in the United States between about 1940 and 1971. (It is no longer given to pregnant women.)
Lack of regular Pap test, Weakend Immune System, Age, Sexual History,STDS Smoking Cigaretts, The use of birth control pills for a long time and having many children are all risks for cervical cancer.
# Facts about the Cervical cancer vaccine:
The vaccine known as Gardasil offers protection from the MOST dangerous types of HPV — the virus that causes MOST cervical cancers.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the vaccine in June 2006. The national Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends routine vaccination for girls age 11 and 12, as well as girls and women ages 13 to 26 if they haven't received the vaccine already. The vaccine is most effective if given to girls before they become sexually active.
Although the vaccine could prevent up to 70 percent of cervical cancer cases, it can't prevent infection with EVERY virus that causes cervical cancer.
The FDA is unable to publish any research material pertaining to the side effects of this vaccine. ( My guess is 1. they don't want to reveal the actual side effect due to their severity or 2. they didn't do any research on the side effects of this vaccine - but they want you to give it to your daughter?)
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I guess what really unsettles me about this vaccine is that you have to make a choice to get this STD (to have sex - unprotected sex) and mean while there are many more diseases out there where you don't get to make a decision (not sexually related or any choices of that matter) and you get a fatal disease.
I can't help but feel is all about the money and not for the greater good.
They make a vaccine for an STD and mean while Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Hodgkins Disease, Breast Cancer, Leukemia, Lymphoma and much much more....... are out there with halfass treatments!
Consider this!
Number of People Affected with Non-Sexually Transmitted Diseases:
*CDC has estimated 4 million people in the U.S have Alzheimer's
*Approx 1 in 272 or 0.37% or 1 million people in USA have Parkinson's
*With Hodgkins Disease, 7,000 annual cases in USA (SEER 2002 estimate); less than 1 percent of all cases of cancer
*With Lymphoma there are 61,000 cases per year
*American Cancer society (ACS) estimates that a total of 211,240new cases of invasive breast cancer will occur in women in the United States during the year 2005.
*The American Cancer Society estimates that 34,810 men and women (19640 men and 15,170 women) were diagnosed with and 22,570 men and women will have died of Leukemia in 2005.
**VS**
Number of People Affected with Sexually Transmitted Diseases:
*Chlamydia: 4 million
*Trichomoniasis (Trich): 3 million
*Gonorrhea (Clap): 1.1 million
*Genital Warts (HPV): 750,000 with as many as 500,000 new cases each year
*Hepatitis B: 300,000
*Syphilis: 120,000
*HIV: 1 million affected, with as many as 45,000 new AIDS cases
Some More Facts on STDs:
* One in five people in the United States has an STD.
* Two-thirds of all STDs occur in people 25 years of age or younger.
* One in four new STD infections occur in teenagers.
* Cervical cancer in women is linked to HPV.
* Hepatitis B is 100 times more infectious than HIV.
* STDs, other than HIV, cost about $8 billion each year to diagnose and treat SHA is a trusted partner with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and operates the national AIDS, STD and Immunization Hotlines.
* One in five Americans have genital herpes, yet 90 percent of those with herpes are unaware they have it.
* At least one in four Americans will contract an STD at some point in their lives.
* HPV and Chlamydia are the most common STDs in the United States.
* More than 5 million people are infected with HPV each year.
Less than half of adults ages 18 to 44 have ever been tested for an STD other than HIV / AIDS.
* At least 15 percent of all infertile American women are infertile because of tubal damage caused by pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), the result of an untreated STD.
* Two-thirds of Hepatitis B (HBV) infections are transmitted sexually, HBV is linked to chronic liver disease, including cirrhosis and liver cancer.
Evidently there is much more money researching and providing vaccinations for Sexually Transmitted Diseases (in the case two people had unprotected sex consensually) than actually helping people who are helpless to whether they get a non-STD fatal disease or not.
Like I said I’m not sure, but this is what the research is showing, so I’m not really sure how I feel about a vaccination to prevent a sexually transmitted disease, when abstaining from sex, proper sex ed, and having protected /manogmus sex with a familiar partner. I don't think this vaccine should be used insead sexual education....... Education is Prevention.
2006-09-22 13:46:56
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answered by Krazee about my pets! 4
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I think it is a good idea for the following reasons:
1. "Among those ages 15-49, only one in four Americans has not had a genital HPV infection."
2. Although the girl might save herself for marriage and remain a virgin, there is no guarantee that her husband has and he might be carrying the disease.
3. There is always the possibility of sexual assault.
4. When teenagers engage in sexual acts, they are definitely not thinking of way in the future. No girl is going to not have sex because she might get cervical cancer twenty years from now. It doesn't enter into the equation.
2006-09-22 19:05:21
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answered by meridocbrandybuck 4
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From what I hear the controversy is that if you give your child the vaccine it's like condoning they have sex. Like anything else that can protect them from disease or death, some parents tend to think if they teach their children about protection they may as well be allowing them to have sex.
Personally I think it is ARROGANCE AND IGNORANCE for a parent to think just because they don't want their teen to have sex that they won't be. Even the most upright God fearing Christians fall once in a while. Even if your loving God fearing teen falls just once it could cost them their life if they aren't protected.
Even God realizes no one can be perfect, he expects us to fall, isn't that why he sacraficed his son?
I am 6 weeks away from giving birth to my first daughter. I have raised or am still raising 4 boys ages 22, 18, 16, and 9 and I taught them about protecting themselves since they were 14 or younger and will probably do the same with my daughter at even a younger age. I don't want my children having sex before they are mature enough to handle the consequences, however, I was their age once and I know the challenges they face, parent's aren't always there over their shoulder giving them encourage ment to fight pressure and sometimes doing the wrong thing feels like the right thing. I would much rather my children be protected when and if the need arises then to think that all my wants, needs, and lectures, will stop them.
2006-09-22 19:03:55
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answered by ? 4
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Though I don't have all the information on this topic, I know that I'm not fond of the idea. Society is growing away from abstinence, and I personally don't care if it guards against cervical cancer. Girls aged nine should not be having sex, therefor no risk for cancer, right?
2006-09-22 18:53:44
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answered by fruitieisland 2
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Anything that can stop cancer is a God send. I'm all for it. I'm embarrassed to admit, but I had contracted HPV (which leads to cervical cancer) in my early 20s. It is very scary to know that you have something that could end up being cancer...just like finding up a lump in your breast.
2006-09-22 18:52:11
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answered by concretebrunette 4
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This is one of the deadliest female cancers so if the vaccine will help prevent it, GREAT. Send every female to get it! I think insurance companies would rather pay for the vaccine than to have to pay for cancer treatments.
2006-09-22 19:02:25
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answered by Ryan's mom 7
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bummer.....years late for the rest of the ones that have contracted the HPV that causes cervical cancer to begin with.
2006-09-22 19:00:05
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answered by Bella 5
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I have yet see the long term findings in this research of what it might do to the children in an adverse way, so I will not be putting my child forward for it for some time to come.
2006-09-22 18:52:20
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answered by candy g 7
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I think that they'd be stupid not to get it...It gives them a chance against vervical cancer which you can get and not know
2006-09-22 18:55:56
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answered by mommy_2_liam 7
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It can help prevent a terrible illness. Whats to think besides hooray?
2006-09-22 18:57:32
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answered by desi 3
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Girls as young as nine can begin what?????????
2006-09-22 18:51:21
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answered by Anonymous
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