Every parent geniunely concerned for the health of their daughter should consider this(HPV Vaccine).?

Question

http://sayno2gardasil.blogspot.com/........

Sure you can protect your daughter against cervical cancer. The question is, at what cost? At really who's benefit?

Answer 1

Your link is dead.

However, I don't see the "cost" you're referring to -- the only real arguments I've heard against the vaccine is from those who are concerned that the vaccination implies some kind of moral laxity or allowance for their daughters, which is not a strong argument in my opinion, because their moral foundation has infinitely more to do with parents and friends than it does with a vaccination.

And whose benefit? Well, obviously the daughter's, who is then less likely to develop cervical cancer -- I'd say that's a "marginally significant" benefit

Answer 2

That link is dead. Our pediatrician usually waits about a year after the FDA releases new drugs in the States to see what adverse affects come up. If the drugs seem safe she will then start them on her patients.

Just know that the vaccine works for the HPV virus which causes a certain (and probably more common) type of cervical cancer. You can still get other forms of cervical cancers, but I'm not going to force my daughter to get this yet. Will wait a while. She's not sexually active yet and so there's no rush.

Many believe other viruses are responsible for other forms of cancer...HPylori =ulcers =cancer...the Epstein Barr virus...I'm sure one day they will find a link to viruses/bacterias and the role they play on cancers.

Answer 3

I'll answer your rhetoric with rhetoric....

What if this were a vaccine for prostate cancer or testicular cancer?