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HPV vaccine given go ahead.
Posted: 29 Oct 07 7:19 AM |
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Richard's comment. Perhaps we should be asking why the vast majority of women exposed to the PV virus do not go on to develop cancer, rather than assuming that vaccination will also help this group. Could this strategy lead to increased risk from other cancers?
Go-ahead for cancer jabs for 12-year-old girls
·Vaccine will stop spread of sexually-transmitted virus
·School programme to begin next September
The first national campaign to vaccinate against cancer was launched yesterday by the Department of Health. The programme is aimed at preventing most cases of cervical cancer in women by vaccinating 12-year-old girls against the sexually-transmitted virus that triggers the disease. It is predicted to save 400 lives a year.
The first girls will be vaccinated in schools from September 2008. The standard programme will cost £100m a year plus a further £400m to implement a "catch-up" programme to cover girls currently under 16. As yet, the government has not decided whether to provide the vaccine to older women on the NHS.
"Now more than ever before we need to make the NHS a service that prevents ill health and prioritises keeping people well," said the health secretary, Alan Johnson. "Prevention is always better than cure and this vaccine will prevent many women from catching the human papilloma virus in the first place."
Starting from next September, all girls in the second year of secondary school will receive three shots of the vaccine spread over six months. Boys will not receive the vaccine. Although they transmit the virus they mostly do not suffer symptoms and health officials have decided it would not be cost effective to add them to the programme.
Economic modelling suggests that it is cost effective to vaccinate girls up to 18. To make sure girls who are too old for the core programme next year are covered, the department plans two "catch-up" vaccination programmes in the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years. These will cover school years 12 and 13 and school years 11 and 12 respectively. Once these programmes are finished, all girls in secondary school apart from those in the final year will have received the vaccine.
Two drug companies, Merck and Glaxo-smithkline, offer vaccines against HPV. Both protect against the two most common cancer-causing strains but the Merck vaccine, gardasil, also provides immunity against two other strains which cause genital warts. The government has not yet decided which vaccine to use.
Cervical cancer is unusual because almost 100% of cases are caused by infection with the HP virus and most of these are caused by two of the more than 100 strains. "Here we have absolute cause and effect," said David Salisbury, director of immunisation at the Department of Health. "Most people in their life meet this virus. It's very easily transmissible."
Around four-fifths of people have been infected by the time they are 50. In 2006 there were 831 deaths from the disease. In rare cases the virus can cause cancer of the mouth, penis, vulva and anus.
The vaccination has caused controversy, particularly in America, amongst abstinence campaigners. They say that providing it to 12-year-olds gives tacit approval to under-age sex. But Prof Salisbury said the programme was designed to follow the best data on when infections occur, as the vaccine will not work if it is given after someone has contracted the virus. "We are making no judgments at all about what any person does or doesn't do," he said. The latest data from the Health Protection Agency showed that it was important to reach children with the vaccine before the age of 15, because that was the point at which the level of infection in girls begins to rise.
Harpal Kumar, Cancer Research UK's executive director, welcomed the programme but cautioned that its benefits would not be seen overnight. "While the vaccine has the potential to prevent many cases of the disease, the impact of a vaccination programme won't be felt for many years," he said. "Cervical screening remains vital in preventing the disease. We urge all women to take up the invitation when they receive it."
Screening prevents 84% of cervical cancers. Women undergo follow-up appointments to establish whether they have cervical cancer. "There's severe anxiety, clearly, associated with cervical screening," said Prof Salisbury, "these are interventions that we dearly want to take away from women's lives."
How it develops
There are more than 100 strains of human papiloma virus, of which strains 16 and 18 cause most cases of cervical cancer. Some infections can be removed by the body's immune response, but if an infection is prolonged it can lead to changes to cells in the cervix.
Parts of the virus DNA become inserted into the DNA of the outer layer of cells of the cervix, triggering those cells to produce viral proteins.
These cells are now regarded as "pre-cancerous" and extra mutations to the DNA are the final step towards full cancer. |
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Re: HPV vaccine given go ahead.
Posted: 28 Jan 08 3:08 AM |
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Cervical cancer vaccinations offered privately
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A NORTH health clinic is to start offering a potentially life-saving new jab to schoolgirls ahead of the Government’s own vaccination programme.
And the first to be immunised will be the clinic director’s own daughters.
From this autumn, all 12 and 13- year-old girls — in school year eight — will be offered a vaccination to protect them against cervical cancer.
Public health experts believe the national immunisation programme will save the lives of hundreds of women who develop the disease after being infected with the sexually-transmitted human papilloma virus — HPV — the cause of 99 per cent of all cases.
Some parents have voiced fears however that vaccinating such young girls could encourage sexual promiscuity.
Mum-of-three Sarah McLain, who runs the Centaurus private health care clinic in Teesside, says that’s rubbish and it’s vitally important to protect our girls against what is the second most common women’s cancer in Europe after breast cancer.
Sarah said: “This is a myth that needs to be dispelled. They are targeting 12-year-olds first as that’s the time when their immune systems are very receptive and they will get the benefit before they become sexually active.
“HPV is spread not only through penetrative sex, but also skin-to-skin, so it can be transmitted through heavy petting.”
She will be personally immunising her own daughters, Alex, 23 a student at Northumbria University, Fiona, 20, a student in London, and Catriona, 10, who is at school in Yarm, Teesside.
“The very least I can do — for the price of insuring a car — is to give them an injection that will hopefully prevent them from getting cancer,” says Sarah.
However, safety concerns were raised this week by the sudden deaths of two girls in Austria and Germany following their immunisation with another cervical cancer vaccine, Gardasil, made by Merck & Co.
One and a half million patients have been vaccinated with Gardasil in Europe and no causal relationship has been established between the deaths and the vaccine. It has not yet been decided whether Gardasil or Cervarix will be used by the UK Government.
Sarah, who has already taken delivery of the Cervarix vaccine manufactured by Glaxo Smith Kline, believes many parents, whose daughters may not be in the first wave of the Government’s immunisation programme, will opt to pay privately to ensure they’re protected.
For, although the NHS vaccine is first being offered to 12 to 13- year-olds, it will take three years for a catch-up strategy to take effect.
It will be 2011 before all girls aged between 12 and 18 will have been vaccinated. Some mums, like Sarah, who have daughters older than this may wish to speak to their GP about the possibility of a free vaccination or decide to pay for it privately.
Sarah said: “Under the Government’s plans some girls will have left school before the catch-up programme gets to them so what happens then?
“What we’re doing is offering it to people who can’t get hold of it and want to use it to protect themselves and their children. You can be exposed to HPV at any time of life and many newly- single, older women may also want to take advantage of it.”
Privately, the vaccine costs £150 per jab and three vaccinations are required one and five months apart, which offers five years’ protection.
A spokesman for Cancer Research UK welcomed the Government programme as “an exciting step towards preventing cervical cancer in the UK” but said the impact would not be felt for many years and that cervical screening would remain vital in preventing the disease. |
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Re: HPV vaccine given go ahead.
Posted: 11 Mar 08 9:28 AM |
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| Hi, I am new to this website, and its with great joy that I came across it! I thought I would add this article a friend of mine sent me from Australia re the HPV vaccine. It was published in an Australian newspaper The Daily Telegraph in December last year and makes for interesting reading. It's great that wesbites like this exist. Where information can be shared which is otherwise not readily accessible, yet important in order to have a balanced view about our health options.
I find the argument for vaccinating young women at 12 years old as very worrying. This is a time when the human body is experiencing a huge transition and a healthy immune system is more necessary than ever in order to support the body whilst it copes with these changes. Introducing foreign substances into the body at this time could compromise the immune system for life and so ultimately the life long health of that person. And can anyone tell us what the effects of this vaccine will have on our future generations fertility? Should the money invested in developing this vaccine not be better spent on improving sex and health education for the young?
Article:
Are we sure Gardasil is safe?
From the AVN list.
By Melinda Tankard Reist and Dr Renate Klein
December 05, 2007 07:16am
WHEN reports first emerged a few months ago of Melbourne school girls
fainting, suffering dizzy spells and paralysis after their Gardasil
injections, the anti-cancer drug's inventor Ian Frazer put it down to
auto-suggestion.
Dr Stephen Downes said it was mass sociogenic illness - hysteria.
Now it has been revealed that, as of November 30, 496 adverse reactions
have been lodged with the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). In the
US it's fast approaching 3500 reported cases.
There are too many unanswered questions about the drug, which has also
been linked with other symptoms such as temporary blindness,
convulsions, disorientation, hyperventilation and tinnitus.
Why are we pushing ahead with a $450million program when there is so
little information about safety and whether the drug actually works?
Only a small number of randomised trials have been reported - all with
funding from the vaccine's manufacturer.
Gardasil was tested on fewer than 1200 girls under 16. It is essentially
an untested product in this age group.
There is little evidence that the drug, when administered to very young
girls, will still be active later in life - when most cervical cancers
develop.
There are more than 100 strains of the human papilloma virus (HPV). At
least 13 of these can cause cancer. Gardasil covers only two. Yet all
the advertising for the drug leads you to think that if you get the jab,
you won't get cancer.
Are girls being given the opportunity to understand and avoid risks
factors for cervical cancer such as smoking, a weak immune system, the
pill, multiple sex partners and unprotected sex?
Are girls told pap smears are still necessary - or do they not bother
because they think they are now safe?
An editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association this
year stated: "It is important to emphasise that the vaccine is supported
by limited efficacy and safety data."
Why doesn't the health department want to give us details of the 17
girls a week experiencing adverse reactions?
No one's asking for their names and addresses. But those of us concerned
about women's health want to know what happened to them and give other
young women the opportunity to make an informed decision about Gardasil.
* Melinda Tankard Reist is an author and director of the think tank
Women's Forum Australia. Dr Renate Klein is a long-term health
researcher
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Re: HPV vaccine given go ahead.
Posted: 30 Mar 08 1:12 PM |
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VAERS reporting -- is it accurate?
Cynthia A. Janak
March 30, 2008
I have had people tell me that the numbers that I have been updating in regards to the Gardasil vaccine are not that bad considering the lives that will be saved from cervical cancer. So what I did was to go to the "National Vaccine Information Center" to get their take on what the numbers are or should be. I was astounded at what I found.
https://www.nvic.org/Issues/VAERS.htm
In 1986, Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (PL-99-660) that among other things required healthcare providers to report vaccine reactions to a centralized reporting system. As a result the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) to which parents, physicians and vaccine manufacturers could report adverse events was created. NVIC has assisted many parents in reporting adverse events following vaccination as many doctors refuse to make a report. It is estimated that only 1–10% of all doctors report a severe health problem which occurs after a drug or vaccine is given to a patient.
In May 1990 we started to track DPT vaccine lot number when parents reported their child's hospitalization, injury or death following vaccination to NVIC. Evaluating adverse event reports from more than 90 families, we found multiple serious reports were from the same vaccine lot numbers. NVIC made three separate presentation to government advisory committees between 1990 and 1993, but no substantive action was ever taken by the FDA or CDC.
Upon further investigation when the VAERS computer data became available through the Freedom of Information Act, we found (1) a lack of reporting by health care providers; (2) a lag time between when the adverse event occurred and when the report is filed; (3) data entry error; (4) duplicate reports; (5) inadequate follow-up by the government of reported serious injuries and deaths; (6) many lots with very high numbers of reports; and (7) no recall of any lot of vaccine. We do not know how many doses of vaccine are in each lot because the FDA and the drug companies do not release this information to the public. Therefore, it is impossible to precisely compare one lot to another for reactivity.
I am going to use this statement in regards to the articles that I have written about Gardasil and vaccines. I think you will find this interesting.
In my article on Gardasil dated March 28th, 2008 I gave the newest stats on Gardasil. They are as follows.
5238 reported incidents +2141 = 7379 (I will update the multiple incident number at a future date.)
89 were considered life threatening
204 were hospitalized
913 had not recovered at the time of the report
124 are disabled at the time of the report
13 have died
Because of this vaccine three more young women died and we have an increase of 932 incidents reported. That is approximately 310+ girls that had an adverse reaction to this travesty every month.
I am going to start with this sentence in the first paragraph. It is estimated that only 1–10% of all doctors report a severe health problem which occurs after a drug or vaccine is given to a patient.
With this in mind I am going to take the higher percentage which is 10% and figure what the new numbers should be that include the potentially unreported incidents by the doctors.
73790 reported incidents
890 were considered life threatening
2040 were hospitalized
9130 had not recovered at the time of the report
1240 are disabled at the time of the report
130 have died
Why would our doctors not report an adverse effect like fainting or seizures? The reason could be that they are following the company opinion that "it is a case of auto-suggestion." Does that sound logical to you? It sure doesn't to me.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/why-are-we-experimenting-with-drugs-on-girls/2007/05/24/1179601570922.html
Of course, the vaccine couldn't be at fault. CSL, the company that makes Gardasil, said the reactions were due to stress and anxiety. The girls were all worked up. They'd got themselves into a state and panicked. The vaccine's inventor, Ian Frazer, said it was a case of auto-suggestion.
These two paragraphs preceded what I put above. If you follow the logic of Ian Frazer then all these other adverse effects are also auto-suggestion.
THE much trumpeted inject-every-girl-free-with-Gardasil campaign has run into a bit of a snag. Four Melbourne schoolgirls were rushed to hospital this month after receiving the vaccine promoted as preventing cervical cancer.
Sixteen other girls were reported sick. One student was left paralyzed for six hours. "I couldn't move at all," she said.
I would like to ask Ian Frazer how paralysis could be auto-suggestion.
Maybe most doctors believe this and that is why they do not report the reactions that babies and small children have to vaccines. It is all because of auto-suggestion even though babies cannot talk or truly understand language. Interesting concept I think.
With all this in mind let us take another look at the new figures.
73790 reported incidents
890 were considered life threatening
2040 were hospitalized
9130 had not recovered at the time of the report
1240 are disabled at the time of the report
130 have died
With the new figures we have over 3000 girls and women that have had an adverse reaction to this vaccine in a month. That means that 36000 will be affected in a year. If we put the same logic to use with deaths that means there will be approximately 10 deaths a month and 120 deaths a year. This also means that we have approximately 600 girls a month that have not recovered at the time of the report. That equates to 7200 girls and women a year. What this is telling me is that we are willing to sacrifice over twice as many women to potentially be disabled for the long term to save 3,700. How does that balance out? That makes no sense to me.
The average age of a woman with cervical cancer is 48. The effectiveness or dangers of this vaccine will not be known for at least a decade. Let's put things into perspective. Cervical cancer results in just 3,700 deaths nationally every year compared to heart disease, which kills over 300,000 women annually.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54219
Just one more perspective on this. Let us say that the average woman that gets the vaccine is 16 years old and the average age of a woman with cancer is 48 years old we have a span of 32 years between vaccination and cancer. Let us say that we now have 100 women that are disabled a month from the vaccine. We will then have 1200 a year newly disabled women and you multiply that by 32 years between vaccination and cancer you will have 38400 disabled women cancer free in this country. What kind of a strain will that put on our health care system?
On to the next paragraph.
"we found multiple serious reports were from the same vaccine lot numbers. NVIC made three separate presentations to government advisory committees between 1990 and 1993, but no substantive action was ever taken by the FDA or CDC."
I would like to know why no substantive action was ever taken by the FDA or CDC. If something is hurting my child or grandchild I would expect that they would investigate and take that vaccine lot off the market just as a precaution. Could it be that they did not do anything because of the fire storm that would hit the press if they did that? Could it be because of big pharma and politics? I do not know but these questions should be asked.
I will finish with the last paragraph that states, We do not know how many doses of vaccine are in each lot because the FDA and the drug companies do not release this information to the public.
Why isn't this information released under the Freedom of Information Act? This should be required by the FDA and big pharma. To me this is just another censoring of critical information that would be of a benefit for the citizen but detrimental to big pharma if a hot lot is found. Could this be collusion? It sure looks that way but who knows for sure.
What I do know is that the FDA put this vaccine on the fast track to approval and now we are paying the price for this auto-suggestion.
This is just another example of what happens when We The People let our government run some area of our lives. They are not being accountable to the citizens. Whatever happened to transparency in government? My opinion is that they are only being transparent when it suits their agenda? Or maybe they have too much to do and need to give some of the responsibility back to the States, what a concept.
I have one comment that is off topic for Hillary, Obama and McCain. We The People need less government intrusion in our lives. Stop preaching the rhetoric of more government policies and agencies. Give the power back to the people if you dare. We are not under educated like during the "New Deal Era." We do not need any more 'New Deals.' We want our country back.
Please call or write your elected officials and tell them to take this vaccine off the market immediately before any more young women become disabled.
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Cynthia Janak is a freelance journalist, mother of three, foster mother of one, grandmother of five, business owner, Chamber of Commerce member. Her expertise is as an administrative professional. Her specialties are adoptee and genealogy research and research journalism. Hobbies: Writing prose, crocheting, Conservative Studies, and rehabbing houses. You can contact Cynthia Janak at
cj1951@ameritech.net
© Copyright 2008 by Cynthia A. Janak
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/janak/080330
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