vaccine blocks cervical cancer?

[topaz]

A preliminary study has found that a new vaccine is 100% effective at blocking cervical cancer.

edit: I neglected to credit the always-alert opadit for pointing me at this.

Comments

[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

WOW.

Thanks for sharing this! It's nice to read some good news for a change!

[fj.livejournal.com]

Men need to be vaccinated with this too. We get pre-cancerous HPV lesions in our colons that can develop into colo-rectal cancer.

[stephe.livejournal.com]

That's cool, but I'm going to make a cynical prediction: someone, somewhere in the current federal government will try to block development and distribution of this drug because it will, in their view, encourage promiscuity by removing one of the "punishments" for sex.

[harimad.livejournal.com]

"Thunderstruck" is how I felt, too. Method-effectiveness of 100% after two years, use-effectiveness of 97% for the #2 cancer killer among women. And it reduces genital warts. Any word on how much it'll cost?

Persons whose mothers took DES when pregnant with them are also at increased risk for cervical or testicular cancer.

I predict objections will be based on the "questionable safety" of genetically engineered vaccines. The way to overcome the objections is to trumpet how many men's lives the vaccine will save, before the genetic engineering becomes a problem.

Cynically yours,
Harimad

[beah.livejournal.com]

This is *awesome* news. Here's hoping it doesn't have nasty side effects like, you know, causing children to be born with 2 heads, or the dreaded "anal leakage."

[dbang.livejournal.com]

Awesome.

Just to nit-pick (not so much you as the report), it proved 100% effective against cervical cancers caused by HPV 16 and 18, which cause 70% of all cervical cancer (according to the article). That means it was less than 100% effective at blocking all cervical cancer. (They didn't say whether it had any impact on non-HPV-16/18 cancers at all, only that such cancers did occur in vaccinated women.)

Not complaining, still good news, but that 100% number seems misleading to me.

[redheadedmuse.livejournal.com]

that's rocking news, but isn't a few years old? I seem to remember being really fucking happy that my daughter would not have to worry about that bit of nastiness, and in that memory, the daughter I was happy for was a figment of my imagination, not the living, breathing creepy crawlie I have sleeping upstairs.