A vaccine for Cervical Cancer

[TinyGang]

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I think it is such a good thing, but apparantly some people are unhappy about it.

yes, some people really need to face up to reality.

I had early stages of cervical cancer when I was 19 - caught from the second bloke I'd ever slept with, so I'd hardly been a slattern. It was scary, the surgery was unpleasant and I got an infection - all things that might as well be avoided.

Girls are immunised against rubella at a young age because most will eventually - many years later - become pregnant, so why not this?

I'm really pleased that this is going to be available for our children's generation.

I'm sorry you went through that geekgrrl

I think you are right though and I would certainly want my children to have a vaccine like that if they were to be protected. I don't think it's promoting early sexual relationships or even a promiscuous lifestyle. As you say, you can be unlucky just the once

I think this is an excellent idea just wish it had been invented before! I don't think that the vaccine will encourage people to have sex early or have unprotected sex, if they are going to do that they will do it anyway regardless, surely its better that they are protected from as much as possible and well educated about safe sex.

I think this is great, and can't see how it could possibly encourage early sex or promiscuity?! Like geekgrrl, I'd made the Rubella connection - surely this makes perfect sense. So pleased that it will hopefully be available by the time DD gets to that age.

It isn't so long ago that pubescent girls were given Rubella jabs to protect their future unborn children , wonder if there was the same early promiscuity worry then ?