Cervical cancer Gardasil

[Ivykaty44]

Will anyone be asking for Gardsail rather than Cervarix?

Has anyone asked for Gardsail on the NHS and been allowed?

For your dd's I mean

Anyone?

there's a discussion on it here that you may find useful:

www.badscience.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12602&start=0

I'll be asking for none

I would love to know your reasoning behind this given the risk of your daughter dying from cervical cancer? let's not forget that happens on average to 3 people every day, including the mother of a friend of mine, it's not a rare event.

I think I've explained it on earlier threads? if you'd really love to know.

to be honest i can't be bothered to trawl through the vaccination topics to find it because some of the more strident anti vaxxers seem to regularly come out with stuff that would force me to throw my laptop through the window. could you provide a link?

not really

mso - thanks for the link

cervarix is the only one available on the NHS and only to a certain age group. if you want the other you have to pay for it privately, unless you can convince your gp to pay.

I'm trying to get Gardasil for my daughter not Cervarix. Once you've had Cervarix you cannot be vaccinated against warts - one of the fastest growing STDs in the country. A friend asked her GP and her daughter is getting it free: the GP said it was prescribable and that it would be "immoral" to withhold it. My own GP practice is charging almost the commercial rate, sigh, I've got three daughters.

The two vaccines are not the same in terms of their cervical cancer protection.

Cervarix is clinically proven to have cross-protection against cancer-causing cerotypes other than those included in the vaccine, as well as being clinically proven to have sustained protection, which is what you need in a cervical cancer vaccine.

Gardicil does not have the same proven cross- or sustained-protection.

If your priority is cancer, then go for Cervarix. If your priority is a little less cancer protection and protection against genital warts, then go for Gardisil. Genital warts may be a fast-growing STD, but it's worth bearing in mind that it affects less than 1% of the female population. Plus it doesn't kill. Cervical cancer kills.

If you give a cervical vaccine at the age of 10, you want assurance that it's going to last the distance - only one of them offers clinically proven sustained protection (the other may well offer it, but it's not proven).