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1% of 60%?

Where did you get your numbers from, first of all.

Why didn't all of those women get pap smears, second of all.

Does that mean only 768,000 women are diagnosed with HPV each year?

That one percantage refers to women whose HPV wasn't caught, so really, less than 1% of the 75% that have it go on to have cancer. It's 1% of women with undiagnosed HPV. Though 75% of women have HPV, let's say for the purposes of my bad math mindedness, there are 100 women. 75 have HVP. Of that 75, it's only caught in 20 people, leaving 55 women. 1 percent of 55 is .55 That means 1 in 200 women, not 1 in 60 women, and that's only if it's caught in less than a third of women. If every woman has regular pap smears, do you know how many women will get cervical cancer from HPV?

According to everything Merck has said, NONE.

So I ask, why is a vaccine needed to do something that a simple regular checkup can do? It costs less than a vaccine, too, and should be done anyway for other health concerns.

Penile cancer survival rate is 50%. So doesn't it make sense to protect boys, or are they allowed to risk their own health when girls aren't?

. 1 percent of 55 is .55 That means 1 in 200 women, not 1 in 60 women,

Uhm, 1 percent of 60 percent IS .60%, not 1 in 60 women.

If every woman has regular pap smears, do you know how many women will get cervical cancer from HPV? According to everything Merck has said, NONE.

Well, that would be even better.

So I ask, why is a vaccine needed to do something that a simple regular checkup can do? It costs less than a vaccine, too, and should be done anyway for other health concerns.

Certainly, I'm very pragmatic. And I'm not a doctor.

Penile cancer survival rate is 50%. So doesn't it make sense to protect boys, or are they allowed to risk their own health when girls aren't?

Survival rates don't matter, it matters how many people get penile cancer. I suspect that the rate is very low.