it's a cancer vaccine for god's sake
I want my cancer vaccine!
Or so argues the far right in this country, who have been making trouble for this research from the beginning.
Don't let them delay this any longer. Call the FDA (1-888-INFO-FDA ) and demand your cancer vaccine.
Cervical Cancer Vaccine Is Found Effective - nyt
An experimental vaccine has proved highly effective at preventing cervical cancer in a two-year study involving more than 12,000 women, researchers reported today.What is holding it up? Well, the vaccine works by making women immune to HPV. So it would be an HPV vaccine too. The best age to administer the vaccine would be to pre-teen girls. And we wouldn't want girls to have permission to have sex. That's what saving you from cancer would be, a call to wild pre-teen fornication.
If it were widely used, the vaccine could save many lives. Worldwide, there are about 500,000 new cases of cervical cancer a year, and 290,000 deaths. Most of the cases and most of the deaths occur in poorer countries where women do not have regular Pap tests, which can detect cancers or precancers early enough for them to be cured. In the United States, where Pap tests are common, 10,400 new cases are expected in 2005, and 3,700 deaths.
Or so argues the far right in this country, who have been making trouble for this research from the beginning.
Don't let them delay this any longer. Call the FDA (1-888-INFO-FDA ) and demand your cancer vaccine.
Cervical Cancer Vaccine Is Found Effective - nyt
posted by good golly at 5:36 PM
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The Nation ran a really amazing article on this a few months ago... I was so angry...the author (can't remember who it was right now) cited the right's explanation that "the vaccine might condone sex for teens." Um...HPV doesn't actually require sex. I like how it's unlikely that we'll reach a state of nationalized health care in our lifetime, and how no matter how many people would love regular care, it won't happen--yet, the far right manages to regularly inject crazy extremist bullshit (usu founded in misinformation) into the current (highly disfunctional) system. The usual US business.
I wonder if the vaccine might be made available in other countries.
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