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.
Thanks for the info. Sassy won’t be getting that vaccine for a long time. I want to see more data on it & I feel she is just too young. When she is older she can decide if she wants it. She has little time for boys now & in the future if she wants to keep her horses & show them. They take up all her spare time. We home school so I don’t worry too much about her hanging around many boys. Her life right now is horses & I hope it stays that way for many years.