Between the 40’s and 70’s pregnant women with complications were given a synthetic estrogen. Turns out that hormone treatment did not make a difference in the outcome of the pregnancy. But the female offspring were then at risk for clear cell adenocarcinoma (cervical cancer), cancer of the vagina, and an increased risk for breast cancer. Sometimes doctors catch that connection, most often they don't because records for those treatments no longer exist and the patients are unaware of it.
Too many posters here assume cervical cancer is a sexually transmitted disease or that a history of cervical cancer is a heredity issue. Now you know that is not always true.
If I were the parent of a pre-teen I would not risk this vaccine for my daughters. Yearly pap tests once a female becomes sexually active is important and safer. Now they are advising pre-teen males also get this vaccine. I'd opt for giving this vaccine some history.
Governor Perry said he went about it the wrong way. Let's move on. The media would love for conservatives to be bogged down with this stuff.
Between the 40’s and 70’s pregnant women with complications were given a synthetic estrogen. Turns out that hormone treatment did not make a difference in the outcome of the pregnancy. But the female offspring were then at risk for clear cell adenocarcinoma (cervical cancer), cancer of the vagina, and an increased risk for breast cancer. Sometimes doctors catch that connection, most often they don't because records for those treatments no longer exist and the patients are unaware of it.
Too many posters here assume cervical cancer is a sexually transmitted disease or that a history of cervical cancer is a heredity issue. Now you know that is not always true.
If I were the parent of a pre-teen I would not risk this vaccine for my daughters. Yearly pap tests once a female becomes sexually active is important and safer. Now they are advising pre-teen males also get this vaccine. I'd opt for giving this vaccine some history.
Governor Perry said he went about it the wrong way. Let's move on. The media would love for conservatives to be bogged down with this stuff.
I have not read the whole thread. What Governor Perry did was totally and completely, (NO matter how good intentioned) against TEA PARTY principles. HE in his executive order required insurance companies to TAX consumers of health insurance to PAY for a few to receive this vaccine.