rant time...
At my parents house for the weekend...not as much for me to do at the Archives as I had hoped...seemed to have everything under control. Planning to drive home tomorrow. This morning checking out the news online...haven't had much time in the past two days. found in the botton of the pages something that really excites me and pisses me off at the same time:
Someone has come up with a vaccine that will protect against HPV's, which is the number one cause of cervical cancer in young women. This is fantastic news!!! Something that will if not eradicate a certian form of cancer will significantly reduce the numbers. What could be the problem?? I'll tell you what the problem is: STUPID RIGHT-WINGED CHRSITIAN CONSERVATIVES!!!!! They want to stop something that will reduce the cause of cervical cancer because it could promote promiscuity in young women. I just want to scream at the blind stupidy of these people. Cervical cancer if caught early can be treated...but do not forget that it is cancer. Try telling a young woman who spends months of surgery and radiation, finding out that she can no longer have children because they had to remove most of her cervix because the cancer had alread begun to spread, that it could have been prevented if she had just gotten a shot but the Christian conserviatives felt that it would have made her sexually active.
Let me tell you from personal experiance: ANYTHING THAT CAN STOP THE RISK OF CANCER IS A GOOD THING. STOP FUCKING WITH IT BECAUSE OF CHRISTIAN MORALS. CERVICAL CANCER IS A KILLER... IN THE U.S. OVER 10,000 WOMEN ARE DIAGNOSED WITH THIS EVERY YEAR AND 4,000 DIE! A VACCINE WILL NOT MAKE YOUNG WOMEN SEXUALLY ACTIVE...IT DOES NOT PROTECT AGAINST HIV OR PREGNANCY BUT HPV'S. STOP BEING STUPID AND START SAVING LIVES. IF I HAD THE CHOICE BACK THEN I WOULD HAVE GLADLY TAKEN THE SHOT. MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, I WOULD HAVE CHILDREN OF MY OWN.
I salute the doctors and scientist who have worked hard to eliminate cancer and truly hope that they continue to find other cures for the hundreds of forms of cancer. I wish cancer on no one. Cancer does not discriminate and it is not bad people or morally loose people who get cancer...
still worked up but I felt I need to get this message out.
Tara
Here is the article that set me off
THURSDAY, June 29 (HealthDay News) - A U.S. advisory panel recommended Thursday that 11- and 12-year-old girls be routinely vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer.
The National Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices also recommended that the vaccine, called Gardasil, be administered to girls as young as 9, at the provider's discretion, and for women up to age 26 who have not previously been vaccinated against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV).
"The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices made a historic vote today to recommend routine use of HPV vaccine for girls aged 11 to 12," Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a Thursday news conference. "It's a very important day - a breakthrough for women's health."
Some religious conservatives and other critics have expressed concern that giving the vaccine to children could encourage underage sex. But, according to Schuchat, no controversy arose at the panel's recent public meetings.
The panel's recommendation was hailed by health experts.
"It's a wonderful thing. It's good news all around," said Dr. Connie L. Trimble, associate professor of gynecology and obstetrics and pathology at Johns Hopkins' Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, in Baltimore. Trimble is working on a therapeutic vaccine for people already infected with the virus.
The advisory committee also recommended that the vaccine be included in the Vaccines for Children Program, which provides free vaccines for children up to age 18 who are eligible for Medicaid, are uninsured or are Native American or Alaskan Native.
The recommendations will be passed along to the head of the CDC and to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for review, and are expected to be accepted.
Gardasil, manufactured by Merck & Co., is the first vaccine to protect against HPV, known to cause most cervical cancers.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Gardasil earlier this month for girls and women aged 9 to 26. An FDA advisory panel had signed off on the vaccine in May.
Cervical cancer is the second most common malignant disease in women globally, causing an estimated 290,000 deaths worldwide each year. In the United States, some 10,400 new cases will be diagnosed this year, and 3,700 women will die from the disease.
The main cause of cervical cancer is continuous infection with HPV, especially HPV 16 and 18, which are spread by sexual contact. The virus also causes precancerous and benign cervical lesions and genital warts, and may be implicated in some anal and oral cancers. An estimated 20 million men and women in the United States are infected with HPV but, for most, the virus shows no symptoms and goes away on its own.
In a two-year study involving more than 12,000 women, Gardasil was found to be 100 percent effective against four types of human papillomavirus: 16 and 18, which are responsible for about 70 percent of cervical cancer cases, and 6 and 11, which cause 90 percent of genital wart cases.
Merck has said the vaccine has the potential to reduce the annual number of new cervical cancer cases around the world from 500,000 to about 150,000, and cut deaths by more than two-thirds, to about 90,000.
At the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology earlier this month in Atlanta, scientists reported that the Gardasil vaccine was also 100 percent effective against vulvar and vaginal precancerous lesions caused by HPV types 16 and 18.
Like many other vaccinations, Gardasil will require three shots over six months. Even with the vaccine, women would still need to be screened for cervical cancer caused by other types of HPV, experts noted. This is most often accomplished by having a Pap test, which is still a very accurate indicator of a woman's cervical condition.
In fact, Schuchat stressed, the vaccine "will not replace other prevention strategies, such as cervical cancer screening for women or protectivesexual behaviors. Women should continue to get Pap tests as a safeguard against cervical cancer."
It's unclear whether insurance providers will pay for the cost of the vaccine - estimated to be $120 - for children not covered under the Vaccines for Children Program.
"We are hopeful that managed care will pick this up," Schuchat said. "Working on ensuring access is very important."
Someone has come up with a vaccine that will protect against HPV's, which is the number one cause of cervical cancer in young women. This is fantastic news!!! Something that will if not eradicate a certian form of cancer will significantly reduce the numbers. What could be the problem?? I'll tell you what the problem is: STUPID RIGHT-WINGED CHRSITIAN CONSERVATIVES!!!!! They want to stop something that will reduce the cause of cervical cancer because it could promote promiscuity in young women. I just want to scream at the blind stupidy of these people. Cervical cancer if caught early can be treated...but do not forget that it is cancer. Try telling a young woman who spends months of surgery and radiation, finding out that she can no longer have children because they had to remove most of her cervix because the cancer had alread begun to spread, that it could have been prevented if she had just gotten a shot but the Christian conserviatives felt that it would have made her sexually active.
Let me tell you from personal experiance: ANYTHING THAT CAN STOP THE RISK OF CANCER IS A GOOD THING. STOP FUCKING WITH IT BECAUSE OF CHRISTIAN MORALS. CERVICAL CANCER IS A KILLER... IN THE U.S. OVER 10,000 WOMEN ARE DIAGNOSED WITH THIS EVERY YEAR AND 4,000 DIE! A VACCINE WILL NOT MAKE YOUNG WOMEN SEXUALLY ACTIVE...IT DOES NOT PROTECT AGAINST HIV OR PREGNANCY BUT HPV'S. STOP BEING STUPID AND START SAVING LIVES. IF I HAD THE CHOICE BACK THEN I WOULD HAVE GLADLY TAKEN THE SHOT. MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, I WOULD HAVE CHILDREN OF MY OWN.
I salute the doctors and scientist who have worked hard to eliminate cancer and truly hope that they continue to find other cures for the hundreds of forms of cancer. I wish cancer on no one. Cancer does not discriminate and it is not bad people or morally loose people who get cancer...
still worked up but I felt I need to get this message out.
Tara
Here is the article that set me off
THURSDAY, June 29 (HealthDay News) - A U.S. advisory panel recommended Thursday that 11- and 12-year-old girls be routinely vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer.
The National Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices also recommended that the vaccine, called Gardasil, be administered to girls as young as 9, at the provider's discretion, and for women up to age 26 who have not previously been vaccinated against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV).
"The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices made a historic vote today to recommend routine use of HPV vaccine for girls aged 11 to 12," Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a Thursday news conference. "It's a very important day - a breakthrough for women's health."
Some religious conservatives and other critics have expressed concern that giving the vaccine to children could encourage underage sex. But, according to Schuchat, no controversy arose at the panel's recent public meetings.
The panel's recommendation was hailed by health experts.
"It's a wonderful thing. It's good news all around," said Dr. Connie L. Trimble, associate professor of gynecology and obstetrics and pathology at Johns Hopkins' Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, in Baltimore. Trimble is working on a therapeutic vaccine for people already infected with the virus.
The advisory committee also recommended that the vaccine be included in the Vaccines for Children Program, which provides free vaccines for children up to age 18 who are eligible for Medicaid, are uninsured or are Native American or Alaskan Native.
The recommendations will be passed along to the head of the CDC and to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for review, and are expected to be accepted.
Gardasil, manufactured by Merck & Co., is the first vaccine to protect against HPV, known to cause most cervical cancers.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Gardasil earlier this month for girls and women aged 9 to 26. An FDA advisory panel had signed off on the vaccine in May.
Cervical cancer is the second most common malignant disease in women globally, causing an estimated 290,000 deaths worldwide each year. In the United States, some 10,400 new cases will be diagnosed this year, and 3,700 women will die from the disease.
The main cause of cervical cancer is continuous infection with HPV, especially HPV 16 and 18, which are spread by sexual contact. The virus also causes precancerous and benign cervical lesions and genital warts, and may be implicated in some anal and oral cancers. An estimated 20 million men and women in the United States are infected with HPV but, for most, the virus shows no symptoms and goes away on its own.
In a two-year study involving more than 12,000 women, Gardasil was found to be 100 percent effective against four types of human papillomavirus: 16 and 18, which are responsible for about 70 percent of cervical cancer cases, and 6 and 11, which cause 90 percent of genital wart cases.
Merck has said the vaccine has the potential to reduce the annual number of new cervical cancer cases around the world from 500,000 to about 150,000, and cut deaths by more than two-thirds, to about 90,000.
At the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology earlier this month in Atlanta, scientists reported that the Gardasil vaccine was also 100 percent effective against vulvar and vaginal precancerous lesions caused by HPV types 16 and 18.
Like many other vaccinations, Gardasil will require three shots over six months. Even with the vaccine, women would still need to be screened for cervical cancer caused by other types of HPV, experts noted. This is most often accomplished by having a Pap test, which is still a very accurate indicator of a woman's cervical condition.
In fact, Schuchat stressed, the vaccine "will not replace other prevention strategies, such as cervical cancer screening for women or protectivesexual behaviors. Women should continue to get Pap tests as a safeguard against cervical cancer."
It's unclear whether insurance providers will pay for the cost of the vaccine - estimated to be $120 - for children not covered under the Vaccines for Children Program.
"We are hopeful that managed care will pick this up," Schuchat said. "Working on ensuring access is very important."