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To: exDemMom

Any female I know with HPV has to be checked at least a few times a year. I have friends who have had HPV go into cancer. That is why so many drs push that GARDASIL. When my 10 yr old daughter’s doctor suggested we think about getting it for Sassy when she turned 11 yrs old it was the final reason to change drs. Her new doctor said he wants to see more data on it & would not even suggest it until she was in her late teens. I think HPV is more serious then people think & that info will lead them to believe it isn’t.


10 posted on 08/20/2010 12:49:09 AM PDT by pandoraou812 (Don't play leapfrog with a unicorn..........^..........)
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To: pandoraou812
Any female I know with HPV has to be checked at least a few times a year. I have friends who have had HPV go into cancer. That is why so many drs push that GARDASIL. When my 10 yr old daughter’s doctor suggested we think about getting it for Sassy when she turned 11 yrs old it was the final reason to change drs. Her new doctor said he wants to see more data on it & would not even suggest it until she was in her late teens. I think HPV is more serious then people think & that info will lead them to believe it isn’t.

There are around one hundred identified strains of HPV; Gardasil only protects against four. It won't protect against warts at all. While warts won't cause cancer, they *are* quite unsightly and uncomfortable. Other strains not covered by Gardasil also cause cancer; I expect to see those strains become more common as more people receive the vaccine. I'm not saying that your daughter shouldn't get the vaccine (being protected against 4 oncogenic strains is better than none), but don't get the idea that the vaccine is going to completely protect her against HPV. It won't.

BTW, HPV is responsible for more than just cervical cancer. It causes many other cancers. Also, one of its more tragic effects is that genital warts can be passed from a mother to a baby, and the baby gets warts on the vocal cords, which must be surgically removed periodically and are incurable. A gynecologist I work with told me that some children have to undergo over a hundred procedures to remove the warts while they are growing up.

15 posted on 08/20/2010 7:13:08 AM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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