GUMC Research Leads to "Cancer" Vaccine

[fbrdphreak]

http://explore.georgetown.edu/news/?ID=15962

Washington, DC ? More than twenty years of collaborative research in the Georgetown lab of Dr. Richard Schlegel has resulted in a major medical breakthrough ? the world?s first cancer vaccine.

The vaccine's technology was generated by a team of Georgetown University researchers in the early 1990s and licensed for commercial development. On June 8, the Food and Drug Administration approved the vaccine, which scientists say could eliminate most new cases of cervical cancer worldwide. Called Gardasil, the vaccine blocks four strains of HPV, including two that give rise to nearly 75 percent of cervical cancer cases and two other strains that cause about 50 percent of genital warts.

I put "cancer" in quotes because this doesn't protect against cancer, but the infection which causes it (HPV).

Let's give one big YAY for cancer (or lack thereof)

 

[mercanucaribe]

Now for an HIV vaccine so I can sleep with all the women I want!!!

 

[TheTony]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Now for an HIV vaccine so I can sleep with all the women I want!!!

Until you realize it isn't the only std.

 

[SuperFreaky]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Now for an HIV vaccine so I can sleep with all the women I want!!!

Stop by Emory's Hope clinic and they will pay you to get it.

 

[Armitage]

I heard that some pro-abstinence groups are opposing this becuase they feel it is promoting promiscuity in teens because it is reccomended to be given to young teen & pre-teen girls :roll:
(if you don't know, HPV is an STD)

http://cancer.about.com/od/hpvcervicalcancervaccine/a/controversyHPV.htm
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=w060306&s=groopman031006
http://www.abstinence.net/blog/index.php?postid=183

A choice quote from the last one:

Premarital sex is dangerous, even deadly. Let's not encourage it by vaccinating 10 year olds so they think they're safe.

 

[TheTony]

Originally posted by: Armitage
I heard that some pro-abstinence groups are opposing this becuase they feel it is promoting promiscuity in teens because it is reccomended to be given to young teen & pre-teen girls :roll:
(if you don't know, HPV is an STD)

That's their right, isn't it? Unless they're using their opposition to block everyone's access to it, I guess I don't have a problem if people disagree on it.

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: TheTony

Originally posted by: Armitage
I heard that some pro-abstinence groups are opposing this becuase they feel it is promoting promiscuity in teens because it is reccomended to be given to young teen & pre-teen girls :roll:
(if you don't know, HPV is an STD)

That's their right, isn't it? Unless they're using their opposition to block everyone's access to it, I guess I don't have a problem if people disagree on it.

The virus is very pevasive - about 80% of americans will be infected with it at some point in their lives. To be effective as a public health policy the immunization needs to be just as pervasive.