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Cervical cancer develops from HPV because the HP virus integrates itself into cells' DNA and then degrades proteins that keep cell growth in check, leading to precancerous growths and then cancer.
This man received a Nobel Prize for that discovery:
The HPV vaccine stops this precursor to cervical cancer in its tracks.
Its effects on the most common types of precancerous growths (HPV16/18—about 70% of all cervical cancers) are near-total prevention.
When you look at more than just HPV16/18 cancers, the effects are still incredibly large, but a bit more modest.
Most cases are still prevented.
For people who are initially HPV16/18-negative the effects of vaccination on subsequent precancers from are also very sizable, and near-total.
The reason cervical cancer will stay with us for a bit longer than we might hope is because of age.
The vaccine is more effective for younger people.
Because of this fact, girls are being offered Gardasil at earlier and earlier ages, lowering their cancer risk accordingly.
But, surely this isn't a free lunch, right?
It pretty much is.
Gardasil is highly specific in its effects, and they are entirely protective.
The only issues are the same things you would get with any injection—nurse mishandles a needle, patient afraid of injections, etc.
There's also currently no reason for concern about potential effects on pregnancy outcomes.
The HPV vaccine Gardasil is a modern miracle.
Each year, more than half a million women develop and 300,000 women die of cervical cancer.
This is unnecessary suffering.
With increased uptake, cervical cancer could be nearly eliminated, with 50 million fewer cases by 2100.
Here's a final rub:
Fortunate: Pharma invented a miracle prophylactic.
Unfortunate: Now it's being attacked by trial lawyers for no real reason.
Sources:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/
cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.10
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Cervical cancer can be essentially eradicated. Globally, we've made tremendous progress, but cultural barriers remain. The technical aspect of the problem is essentially solved.
For the children first exposed to the HPV vaccine (now young women) we showed that introducing the HPV vaccine in 2006 reduced cervical cancer incidence in 2022 by 48%.
Doesn’t the Y-axis unit mean that, assuming a woman lives to the age of 70 (conservative estimate), the risk of dying of cervical cancer was already less than 1 in 47,619 (less than .03 per 100,000 life-years), and now is 1 in 142,857?
My ex-gf’s mom died of cervical cancer and I was always worried I’d get it in my throat
I wonder if this is going to slide backwards with so many people attacking vaccines.
I’ve seen a number of conservative women telling other women not to get this vaccine or give it to their daughters.
It really is a wonderful drug. I wonder if it also brings down Head and Neck cancers too, because there is a strong correlation to HPV. It would be great news if it does.
Huge public health win. The anti-vax movement is really unfortunate, but the trust the public once had in vaccines and public health authority in general is gone, and unlikely to ever come back.
Treatment for cervical cancer has also greatly improved in that time. Current chemo-radiation treatment is extremely effective and usually curative.
Thank you for posting this. I weary of all the negative commentary about any drug produced by Pharma and yet all the herbs and supplements that have no studies done on them are miracle drugs! fantastic ! wonderful! Everybody who wants tons of clinical trials on Pharma drugs with
And yet it’s the most dangerous vaccine in history. Most cases of HPV clear up on their own with no treatment, monogamy in both partners eliminates the risk, and if you take the shot after having HPV, the harmful side effect risk grows exponentially. It’s not a good thing, and
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RFK Jr: "Gardasil is probably the single worst mass vaccine that we've ever seen."
"Children who take that vaccine... are 37 times more likely to die from the vaccine than they are to die from cervical cancer."
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This is why there can’t be a blanket statement that all vaccines are bad. Some are incredibly effective.
Hard to catch it if you don't have sex because you're a morbidly obese loner
my kids got their gardisil when they hit their teens because i’m not fucking stupid
at least not all the time
May I also add that HPV causes head and neck cancer as well. Boys and girls should get the vaccine!!
It’s a miracle
All my kids - boys and girls - have had this vaccine. HPV causes cancer in men too and no-one wants warts on their dick if they can avoid it.
10 years too late for me, sadly. Do they say anything regarding boys taking it and how that works with them? My family dr requested both my boys to take it so I agreed.
> many countries will have practically eliminated cervical cancer in the next two decades
You are underestimating how effective the new anti-vax movements are, unfortunately. Many of them started to grow only after 2021.
As someone who’s been through HPV cancer , this is fantastic news.
Well, gosh, we should give it to infants like we do Hepatitis C. Start em young
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Also, I’m not against your account. There are certain issues I think you could discuss better. I was talking to Charles Murray the other day trying to discuss someone issues with him as well
#Conservatives are STILL fighting to prevent anyone from receiving this because President #Obama promoted saving American lives.
Liberals are pro-life, Conservatives are literally pro-death, pro-cancer.
Hopefully RFK Jr. cleans shop on CDC and FDA. Entire US medical industry is full of quacks making money in the name of science. This is a disgrace to scientists and engineers in other fields that are actually doing good research