Study: Cervical Cancer Vaccine Works

Fox News ^ | 10/6/05 | AP

[jalisco555]

The first major study of an experimental vaccine to prevent cervical cancer (search) found it was 100 percent effective, in the short term, at blocking the disease and lesions likely to turn cancerous, drug maker Merck & Co said.

Gardasil, a genetically engineered vaccine, blocks infection with two of the 100-plus types of human papilloma virus, HPV 16 and 18. The two sexually transmitted viruses together cause about 70 percent of cervical cancers.

Other types of HPV also can cause cervical cancer and painful genital warts. About 20 million Americans have some form of HPV.

The final-stage study of Gardasil included 10,559 sexually active women ages 16 to 26 in the United States and 12 other countries who were not infected with HPV 16 or 18. Half got three vaccine doses over six months; half got dummy shots.

[jalisco555]

This is going much faster than I expected. Great news.

[Savage Beast]

If this is as good as they hope, it is a miracle. Meanwhile, fools denounce the capitalism and Western liberal societies through which God works such miracles.

[End Times Sentinel]

Those greedy b@stards at Merck at it again.  Is there nothing they won't stop at?!?!?!

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

[DocRock]

BTTT

[GovGirl]

HAHAHA. Yeah, I don't see the saints in Canada coming out with anything new. Ohhh, yeah, that might be because price controls kill innovation.

Yay for Merck and all the pharma companies doing this kind of research.

This could potentially save millions of women.

[Blood of Tyrants]

So much for that idiot selling his bookd "Natural Cures" who claims that the drug companies have cures and vaccines for cancer but refuse to market them because they make more money off sick people.

[netmilsmom]

Wow!
My single share of Merck just went up!

[eccentric]

One of the best kept secrets in medicine is that cervical cancer is mostly caused by a sexually transmitted disease. Why not be honest with teenage girls?

[jalisco555]

So much for that idiot selling his bookd "Natural Cures" who claims that the drug companies have cures and vaccines for cancer but refuse to market them because they make more money off sick people.

The allegation of the "conspiracy" to suppress cancer cures is a sure sign of a fraud peddling something.

[brytlea]

What good would it do to be honest with teenage girls? After all, they are simply animals and cannot control their body functions.
susie

[jalisco555]

One of the best kept secrets in medicine is that cervical cancer is mostly caused by a sexually transmitted disease.

Not mostly. 100% of the time, or as close to 100% as we can measure. And you're right, the reluctance of some docs to tell their patients this is disturbing.

[jalisco555]

This could potentially save millions of women.

Prior to the onset of Pap smear screening in this country cervical cancer was the leading cause of cancer death among American women. Our grandmothers and great-grandmothers thought about cervical cancer the way women today think about breast cancer. Unfortunately, worldwide most women cannot get screened for financial and cultural reasons. So you're right, the greedy capitalists at Merck will do more for women's health than all the Department of Women's Studies combined.

[meowmeow]

wow - our grandmothers and great-grandmothers were promiscuous?

[Blood of Tyrants]

That's what I told my son's girlfriend who was starting to buy into that crap.

[jalisco555]

wow - our grandmothers and great-grandmothers were promiscuous?

LOL. Believe it or not. They weren't all born 70 years old.

[RockinRight]

Actually all info I've read on cervical cancer points out the relationship between HPV and cervical cancer pretty well.

[brytlea]

Or perhaps our grandfathers and great grandfathers were....
susie

[jennyjenny]

Or perhaps our grandfathers and great grandfathers were....

Well, they had to be doing it with somebody.

[Hank Rearden]

Meanwhile, fools denounce the capitalism and Western liberal societies through which God works such miracles.

Yes, unfortunately it would probably even protect this bitch:

[bella1]

But they didn't get it in the teens and 20s, as they are now. I listen to medical dictations all day long, and believe me, its scary. The sexually transmitted diseases that are out there are innumerable. I'm in my 40s, and no way were most of these even heard of then as they are now. Promiscuity has a high price tag.