A decade on, vaccine has halved cervical cancer rate

[ehrnst]

Data over dogma....

The world's first cancer vaccine was administered in Australia exactly 10 years ago.

Since then, the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine has been rolled out across 130 countries and halved the number of new cervical cancers.

The HPV vaccine also protects against cancers in the throat and mouth in both men and women.

Prof Ian Frazer said the vaccine could eradicate cancers caused by HPV within 40 years.

"It helps not only control cervical cancer but also the oropharyngeal cancer - the cancers inside the mouth that are caused by these viruses," Prof Frazer, chief executive of the Translational Research Institute, said.

"If we vaccinate enough people we will eliminate these viruses because they only infect humans. And in Australia there's already been a 90% reduction in infections in the 10 years the programme has been running."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-37211349?SThisFB

[mountain grammy]

1. I am grateful this vaccine arrived in time for my daughter.

[longship]

2. The GOP is against the HPV vaccine because HPV is sexually transmitted.

And, you know, abstinence only. No vaccines, apparently.

Sheesh! The idiots.

[ehrnst]

4. Yep - they want negative consequences for sex outside of marital babymaking

and STDs and unwanted childbearing are reduced to behavior modification tools for women.

And HPV was the one boogeyman that they had left for abstinence only "education" because condoms didn't prevent transmission of it.

[blur256]

3. I just posted this to my FB

Yesterday, a "friend" posted a BS article from some website called alternative medicine news or something like that claiming gardisil was killing girls. In case you were curious, she is a trumpernutter

[ehrnst]

5. Tribal thinking.

I wish it was limited to the far right.