I don't believe for a minute that anyone other than someone trying to sell the HPV vaccine wrote the story about her friend's cervical cancer and hysterectomy ("I recently was informed..." by miscortes). For one thing, before 2006, most women didn't even know what HPV was. And another thing, doctors didn't test for it either. This NOT conjecture. There are plenty of industry surveys and data out there to confirm this, if you know how to access them. Plus, this "comment" is stiff and clinically informative -- not exactly how a grieving friend would relate her friend's story. If you want to sell something, just be transparent about it and tell it like it is. Also, as you already know, most HPVs clear themselves within a few weeks or at the most within a couple years. But the most IMPORTANT thing about this vaccine is that it only protects against HPVs that cause about 70 percent of cervical cancer. So that means even with the vaccine, your friend could have gotten cervical cancer anyway -- unless some doctor did extensive testing to ascertain that the cervical cancer she has is linked to the 2 HPVs that the vaccine prevents. And finally, if she was diagnosed with HPV 10 years ago, why didn't her doctor follow up with Pap tests and/or cervical biopsies on the inevitable dysplasia that would have followed? Why did the physician allow this to get to cancer? Or did your friend forget to go back for her pap smears, since most women who get cervical cancer in the US haven't had a Pap test in the past 5 years, or have never had one?
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I don't believe for a minute that anyone other than someone trying to sell the HPV vaccine wrote the story about her friend's cervical cancer and hysterectomy ("I recently was informed..." by miscortes). For one thing, before 2006, most women didn't even know what HPV was. And another thing, doctors didn't test for it either. This NOT conjecture. There are plenty of industry surveys and data out there to confirm this, if you know how to access them. Plus, this "comment" is stiff and clinically informative -- not exactly how a grieving friend would relate her friend's story. If you want to sell something, just be transparent about it and tell it like it is. Also, as you already know, most HPVs clear themselves within a few weeks or at the most within a couple years. But the most IMPORTANT thing about this vaccine is that it only protects against HPVs that cause about 70 percent of cervical cancer. So that means even with the vaccine, your friend could have gotten cervical cancer anyway -- unless some doctor did extensive testing to ascertain that the cervical cancer she has is linked to the 2 HPVs that the vaccine prevents. And finally, if she was diagnosed with HPV 10 years ago, why didn't her doctor follow up with Pap tests and/or cervical biopsies on the inevitable dysplasia that would have followed? Why did the physician allow this to get to cancer? Or did your friend forget to go back for her pap smears, since most women who get cervical cancer in the US haven't had a Pap test in the past 5 years, or have never had one?
May 1, 2010 - 4:46pmThis Comment
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