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Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine (www.bbc.com)

submitted 1 week ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to c/science@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/goodnewseveryone/p/2147904/cervical-cancer-deaths-fall-to-zero-in-young-women-given-vaccine

This is the first cohort of folks that age who were offered the HPV vaccine when they were 12 or 13.

Expect even more dramatic results as that group enters their 30s & 40s.

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[-] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago

FYI, you can get the vaccine as an adult too. Ask your doctor about it at your next check up.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Or your pharmacist. I had a shitty doctor who wouldn't give it for religious reasons. My pharmacist didn't even ask why I wanted a vaccination through her.

[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I had a shitty doctor who wouldn’t give it for religious reasons.

I'm sure it was just someone that has sexual hangups, but I like the idea of someone that is objects to it for an entirely different religious reason. They're religiously opposed to treating cancer. They're bizarrely, ideologically, obsessively pro-life, and they consider it a damnable offense to harm anything that has human DNA. A cancer is just another form of human being! They take the "every cell is sacred" idea quite literally!

I can't give you chemotherapy. That could hurt the cancer. And that's a person!

[-] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

My insurance tried to argue with my doctor over whether they would give it to me. They said it was “experimental “ but my doctor was able to argue that they were wrong and got them to approve it after all.

If your pharmacist hooked you up like that I’m jealous! So much easier.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I can't get my shingles vax (unless I pay) for a few more years. I really wish that was available when I was a kid because shingles suuuuuucks and we very well could eliminate it if there was enough buy in.

[-] OldManWithACane@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

I want to pay out of pocket and they won't let me because Im not old enough!

I already had shingles in my mid 30s and it was an unbelievably excruciating experience. it felt like someone was piercing me with hot needles on the right side of my chest and it lasted for over a week.

But no vaccine because reasons....