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I don't know who he is really, I just picked one of the hundreds of google sites on a good diet, exercise and other good stuff to help you prevent dreaded illnesses.
I am still on the fence about this for girls or boys.
First, if you get the HPV vaccine it lowers your chances of cervical cancer in girls but early detection plays a big role whether you get the vaccine or not. The reason I say this is because cervical cancer is not preventable just like any other cancer but you can lower your risks. I went to the Gyno a few months ago and had a scare. But my doctor told me that because I had a pap smear every year that it can be detected early. Now without going through all the details, they actually removed a precancerous tissue from my cervix that was so small it wasn't detectable to the human eye. The doctor just removed and asked me to follow up in 6 months. The doctor basically said it was gone. Would it work the same way if I had gotten the HPV? I am in my 30's.
There are many cases of women developing cancer between pap smears. Some have been posted on the various HPV forums here on CD. Nothing is foolproof. Getting the vaccine will greatly reduce the risks of getting cancer. It is still necessary to get an annual pap, and frankly, good practice to go to the dr. once a year.
Did your doctor test you for HPV? Many do an HPV test along with the Pap smear. It is done on the same specimen. Normally, it is just reported as "high risk" or "low risk" HPV.
If you tested positive for "high risk", it could have been one of the strains in the vaccine or possibly a strain that is not covered by the vaccine.
However, due to your age, you quite possibly were infected before the vaccine was made available.
At this point, just follow your doctor's advice and continue to have regular Pap smears.
With the HPV vaccines, cancers due to the strains in the vaccine are preventable. Women who take the vaccine still need Pap smears because there are HPV strains that are not covered by the vaccine. The vaccine prevents about three fourths of cancer associated infections.
Yes, he tested me. It was negative. I would go every year, then skip a year or 2, then repeat. Now, since I had that little pre-cancerous tissue, I have to go back in 6 months to make sure everything is good.
I think I will favorably consider it for my daughters when the time comes.
I don't have any sons. My pediatrician wanted to give my dd the female version of this shot when she turned 10. I asked if we could wait as the immunization was still quite new. Pediatrician was OK with it and will give her the shot at age 12 (I believe it's a series of shots).
Even though I would prefer dd to abstain until marriage, I don't have a problem with the shot b/c:
1) She'll be protected if she does have sex.
2) What if she abstains, but marries someone who has been sexually active and been exposed to HPV?
3) There aren't any other immunizations that protect against cancer so why not take advantage of one that will protect a form of the disease that's particularly deadly to women?
I don't have any sons. My pediatrician wanted to give my dd the female version of this shot when she turned 10. I asked if we could wait as the immunization was still quite new. Pediatrician was OK with it and will give her the shot at age 12 (I believe it's a series of shots).
Even though I would prefer dd to abstain until marriage, I don't have a problem with the shot b/c:
1) She'll be protected if she does have sex.
2) What if she abstains, but marries someone who has been sexually active and been exposed to HPV?
3) There aren't any other immunizations that protect against cancer so why not take advantage of one that will protect a form of the disease that's particularly deadly to women?
"Getting the vaccine will greatly reduce the risks of getting cancer."
This cannot possibly be true.
There are what, over 100 HPV viruses and innumerable variants of those viruses.
Last I read, the shot contains ONLY FOUR of them.
Those four strains are the ones that most commonly cause cancer. They are rarer strains of HPV but also much more harmful. Those are the strains currently vaccinated against. The vaccine currently doesn't work on all strains of HPV, but as others have pointed out, those more common strains are less likely to be deadly.
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"greatly reduce" the chances of cancer.
Thank you for further making my point.
Further, it remains true that way, too many girls have been seriously damaged BY the shot.
Funny, that's what I was thinking, that's all she has to say? when you said "that can't be true." Of course it can be true, as Julia explained above. Some people just aren't very scientifically minded, I guess.
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