The poster was confusing this with the the STD human papilloma virus vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, brand name Gardasil.
I wish to heaven there WAS an ovarian cancer vaccine. Ovarian cancer killed my poor mom. She would be alive today if there was such a vaccine.
By the way there are probably many cancers caused by human papilloma virus. Some experts suspect that a variety of cancer rates will eventually drop among Gardasil vaccinated girls.
That is correct. I confused the two.
“The poster was confusing this with the the STD human papilloma virus vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, brand name Gardasil.”
“I wish to heaven there WAS an ovarian cancer vaccine. Ovarian cancer killed my poor mom. She would be alive today if there was such a vaccine.”
(I’m sorry.)
“By the way there are probably many cancers caused by human papilloma virus. Some experts suspect that a variety of cancer rates will eventually drop among Gardasil vaccinated girls.”
(That is questionable.)
I agree. The real problem with ovarian cancer is it is hard to detect even with a physical exam until the ovaries are very swollen. I don’t know why when you get a pap smear the docs just don’t routinely do the CA 125 blood work, its not completely reliable but has about 80% accuracy for detecting ovarian cancer.
Gardasil doesn’t even work against all HPVs, how will it protect against other cancers?