Online petition - vaccine that helps prevent cervical cancer

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My friend has just sent me a link to this petition . She was diagnosed last year with cervical cancer (five weeks after getting married) and has had to have radical treatment which means she will never be able to have children.

She says "We are lobbying for the introduction of the vaccine that will help prevent cervical cancer - it's available privately but not on the NHS yet. It will make HUGE difference in many women's lives.

If you have a little time, please sign the petition on the Downing Street website and help make a difference - and pass this on to your friends.

It will NOT encourage promiscuity as the Daily Mail would have us believe but is the first anti cancer vaccine and will save the lives of 1200 women a year."

Thanks.

done! Thanks for the link.

Thanks Bobalina! I don't know what I would do if I were the mum of a dd aged 9 or upwards, would give serious consideration to pay for the vaccine I suspect.

but isn't the only reason it's not available on thge nhs that it hasn't finished all its tests yet?

Clinical trials are complete as regards safety, I believe, but on-going in terms of long-term trials.

done thanks will pass it on

I won't be signing it, sorry, this vaccine is not yet proven to be safe - and do our children really need another vaccine as well as all the others they are potentially bombarded with? There is a proven link between the papilloma (genital warts) virus and cervical cancer - surely better to encourage and educate our DD's to practise safe sex as well as go for regular screening? If people want their DD's to have it then fair enough but I'm not certain it is the best use of scarce NHS resources.

i think its about to be released on nhs,as im a moggling mum and my dd attended casting for the promotional posters etc in jan