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Cervical Cancer Vaccine for the 12 Year Old

June 20, 2007 at 2:26 PM Cancer News

A new programme has been initiated to by the government to vaccinate all girls from the age 11 to 14 against cervical cancer. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation want the vaccination against human papilloma virus (HPV) to be done for secondary school first year. And there is expected to be a "catch-up" programme for those of 13 to 16.

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The vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix have been developed to protect against strains of HPV that cause cervical cancer.

HPV is the extremely nasty sexually transmitted disease that causes 70% of cervical cancers - a cancer that affects approximately 3,000 women in the UK annually and causes 1,120 deaths. It is the second most frequent form of cancer among woman worldwide after breast cancer.

Some types of HPV can cause benign skin warts while high: risks HPVs are responsible for more serious diseases such as cervical cancer. This vaccine is 99% effective against the two virus strains that cause most cervical cancers. It is also effective against another pair of virus strains that cause most of the non-life threatening, but extremely unpleasant, genital warts. It could prevent about seven hundered deaths every year.

The Health Office estimates that around 70 per cent of all sexually active men and women are infected with a form of HPV once in their lives, with the highest risk among men and women between the ages of 16 and 25.

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