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To: Sols
"I don't think, "It won't cure cervical cancer for every single woman on earth within the next six months" is actually a valid criticism of an effective vaccine that will prevent cancer in hundreds of thousands of American women of the next generation.

It won't. As done, using YOUR numbers, about 2,500 cases a year are claimed to have HPV as a precursor.

That's a a far cry from "hundreds of thousands of women from the next generation"
Who's making stuff up? In fact, even if every child is held down and shot with gardisol from this moment forward, it would take 100's of years to 'prevent' that many cases. It would cost trillions long before that. For what? Cerival cancer is 100% treatable now with existing methods, a simple pap smear. And we already pay for that , it's included in your anual check up fee.

How many shares do you own? Better sell them, because they are going to be as worthless as gardisol.

190 posted on 02/06/2007 12:25:54 PM PST by Nathan Zachary
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To: Nathan Zachary

"Cerival cancer is 100% treatable now with existing methods, a simple pap smear."

A pap smear does not TREAT cervical cancer. A pap smear DETECTS cervical cancer cells.

The TREATMENT is a hysterectomy, followed by chemo/radiation if it has spread.


193 posted on 02/06/2007 12:31:10 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Lezahal)
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To: Nathan Zachary

I told you 8 times those aren't my numbers. You made them up or something, I don't know where you got the bull hockey.

Between 10,000 and 14,000 women get invasive cervical cancer every year! 50,000 cases of cervical carcinoma in situ (localized) are diagnosed. READ THESE NUMBERS. BURN THEM IN YOUR BRAIN.

A pap smear IS NOT A TREATMENT. It is a diagnostic tool. You don't cure or prevent precancerous lesions with a pap smear, you detect them and then attempt to treat them in a way that prevents fullblown, invasive cervical cancer. You cannot always prevent cervical cancer simply by removing the localized cancer tissue. The treatment is SURGERY, CHEMO, HYSTERECTOMY, etc. It is painful, terrible, crippling and life-altering. If the cancer doesn't kill you, somtimes the treatment can.

Prevention is infinitely better than early detection. They are not even comparable in terms of emotional and monetary drain on the patient and the healthcare system.


198 posted on 02/06/2007 12:37:02 PM PST by Sols
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