Re: A Vaccine to Save Women's Lives
From: Jamie (ajfields@pine-net.com)
Thu Feb 8 08:14:06 2007
It's been addressed, I think, but Hep B vaccine has been around a lot
longer. Once Gardasil has been around that long, I will be less
concerned.
At Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Joanne Bulley, MD wrote:
>
>But anal carcinoma is an HPV disease. Laryngeal carcnoma (in
>non-smokers) is an HPV disease. The fact that the vaccine protects from
>90% of the genital HPV (types 6 & 11) cuts the COSTS, Office
>appointments as well as the pain-in-the-particular-anatomy treatments
>has a major ipact on total health care costs. Along with the "herd
>immunity" -- reducing transmission to those at greater risks (the female
>cervix).
>
>All of the above makes it reasonable to vaccinate males.
>
>When it gets approved for males it will be for those reasons - not for
>the cervical cancer part.
>
>As far as many of the arguments so far presented.
>
>When we vaccinate for HepB: doesn't that meet the same arguments: that
>you can CHOOSE to not participate in at-risk behavior. You can choose
>to not use dirty IV drug needles. You can choose to have lower risk
>sexual behavior. You can choose to not do things that land you in jail
>where there is higher risk.
>
>The chance is that well over 90% of the human beings now existing will
>have sex and will have more than one partner over the full life span.
>This is greater than the chance of all the risky behavior that leads to
>Hep B. If we vaccinate for Hep B and Meningitis ... why NOT really
>really push for the HPV vaccine?
>
>The rate of HPV disease and number of office visits and treatments that
>can be reduced by the vaccine is much higher than the number of
>meningitis cases in college. It is just that dying of the menigitis is
>higher than thedying of HPV disease.
>
>Dean and others phrase all this stuff better than I do -- so I should
>just sign off.
>
>Joanne
>
>At Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Raymond Stephen wrote:
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>>Because the aim of the vaccine is to prevent cancer of cervix.
>>
>>Steve
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Kim
>>Elise Goldman
>>Sent: Wednesday, 7 February 2007 5:20 AM
>>To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
>>Subject: Re: A Vaccine to Save Women's Lives
>>
>>So why not make vaccination of males mandatory if that is the reason
>>we are vaccinating?
>
>--
>Joanne Bulley, MD, FACOG
>Solo gyn
>Keene, NH USA
>
--
JFields, RN, BSN
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