[exDemMom]

A 12 year old needs the vaccine because if she waits until she is sexually active, she may very well get infected with the virus. At that point, the vaccine won’t do any good.

Since the vaccine has been approved, the incidence of HPV in teenagers has dropped by 56%. That means that the number of future cervical (and other HPV caused cancers) will decrease by 56%. That represents a lot of lives saved.

Around 19,000 HPV cancers in women and 8,000 HPV cancers in men develop every year. The vaccine has the potential to prevent about 70% of those cancers.

[Responsibility2nd]

I seriously doubt Gardasil alone resulted in that 56
% decrease. What else would account for that?

Answer ~ abstinence.

[GeronL]

It should be a crime to do that to a 12 year old. and it should be a crime when government schools encourage them to have sex too

[freemama]

Thanks for putting the facts up for anyone to read.

Parents, if you have known someone who underwent treatment for an HPV caused cancer, you will want your child vaccinated!

[a fool in paradise]

The push is on to only vaccinate the girls. Boys too are susceptible. Opposition to the vaccine has been cast as part of the "war on women".

Even if boys/men could not get cancer from HPV (they can and do), it would stop the transmission of the virus to non-vaccinated women.