Girl Gets Sex Jab Against Her Will, page 4

Originally posted by americandingbat

Originally posted by CeltAngel

Unfortunately, advertising makes it seem like HPV is the only cause of cervical cancer. Statistically, at least as of 2007, we can prove this wrong. It is currently estimated that there are 20 million people in the US alone that have HPV with 5.5 million more to be infected every year.

In 2007, there were roughly 500,000 reported cases of cervical cancer worldwide. Of those, 11,000 were caused by HPV. 11,000/500,000=.022 - that's 2% of cervical cancer that was caused by HPV.

Could you provide a source for this? Because everything that I've seen says that all cervical cancer (except one rare kind caused by your mother having taken a certain medication while pregnant) involve HPV.

They may also involve other risk factors, such as smoking, poor nutrition, etcetera, but the virus is always present at the site where the cancer begins.

It is true that most HPV infections, even of the strains of HPV that can cause cancer, do not result in cancer. I wonder if perhaps the statistics you cite are reversed? It makes more sense if it says that there are 500,000 new cases of HPV reported each year, and only 11,000 new cases of cervical cancer or pre-cancerous lesions.

That would mean 2% of HPV infections result in pre-cancerous lesions or cancer, and with annual PAP smears and other early detection, these can be treated with great success.

For those of you who are looking for support in avoiding getting these shots, or having your children get these shots, I recommend you take a look at this editorial from the New England Journal of Medicine. Maybe even print it out to take to the doctor with you. When the NEJM prints an opinion piece urging caution and opposing making a vaccine mandatory, you have to think there might be good reason.

What causes squamous cells or glandular cells to become abnormal and develop into cancer isn't clear. However, it's certain that the sexually transmitted infection called human papillomavirus (HPV) plays a role. Evidence of HPV is found in nearly all cervical cancers. However, HPV is a very common virus and most women with HPV never develop cervical cancer.

www.mayoclinic.com...=causes

Another words, they don't know for sure! Not ALL cervical cancers are caused by HPV, but certainly a large number of women with cancer have HPV. AND MOST women with HPV never develop cervical cancer.

So, a couple years ago I was kinda "pushed" into getting my daughter these shots, with uncertainly I allowed her to have her first one. If I could make the choice again, I would say no, especially after having done some research on this vaccine.

After the first shot (within just a short while) my daughter ended up getting a headache, very intense causing nausea which lasted for several days. Before this she rarely developed headaches. Now she gets them all the time including migraines, which she had her first the week after receiving this shot.

Now, can I 100% pinpoint her migraines and continued headaches to this vaccine? No, I cannot, but I can say that it is very coincidental that these started right after she received this vaccine.

I would be interested in hearing from others and their experience.

I did not take her back for the rest of the series of this vaccine.