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Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer

posted by martyb on Tuesday March 06 2018, @06:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the still-have-a-long-way-to-go dept.

canopic jug writes:

Naaman Zhou at The Guardian writes that Australia's free human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme in schools has been highly successful. The International Papillomavirus Society calculates that within 40 years, the number of new cases of cervical cancer will become nearly negligible.

HPV (human papillomavirus) is a sexually transmitted infection that causes 99.9% of cervical cancers. In 2007, the federal government began providing the vaccine for free to girls aged 12-13 years, and in 2013, it extended the program to boys.

Girls and boys outside those ages but under 19 can also access two doses of the vaccine for free. In 2016, 78.6% of 15-year old girls and 72.9% of 15-year old boys had been vaccinated.

As a result, the HPV rate among women aged 18 to 24 dropped from 22.7% to 1.1% between 2005 and 2015.

Eradication is still a few decades out but within reach. The vaccinations are backed up by more advanced cervical screening tests, which are themselves highly successful in detecting high-risk HPV infections before they turn really bad.

Source : Australia could become first country to eradicate cervical cancer. The Guardian

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by NotSanguine on Wednesday March 07 2018, @01:28AM (1 child)

    by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Wednesday March 07 2018, @01:28AM (#648812) Homepage Journal

    A quick googling yielded: "Each shot costs $130 to $150, for a total of around $390 to $450 for the series. "

    Even if this could be made freely available to teens in the US which seems unlikely . . . Good thing then that there are people who would want to make it illegal for kids to get this without their parents' consent or knowledge. That would prevent the parent from exercising some kind of right.

    Hopefully most kids would have no reason to hide the fact that they get a vaccination.

    It is widely available in the US. Most kids get it from their doctors. Especially as more people have insurance these days.

    What's more, putting your kids at risk of getting cancer is bad parenting. Irresponsible at best and neglect at worst.

    There's absolutely no reason to "hide" anything, unless there's something shameful about not wanting to contract cancer. Is there something shameful about that? I don't think so.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 07 2018, @05:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 07 2018, @05:00PM (#649068)

    "What's more, putting your kids at risk of getting cancer is bad parenting. Irresponsible at best and neglect at worst."

    as if you know what's even in the fucking vaccine. are you retarded? or you're just a groveling slave who thinks kissing up to the medical establishment makes him modern and sophisticated? you think you're going to get an extra slave star on your folder? they're just going to let you be further up the slaughter line (right after your trusting kids), you dumb ass, bleating sheep.