Comments | aquariel: This Can Save Your Life

aquariel

This Can Save Your Life

Jun 09, 2006 06:30

( HPV/CERVICAL CANCER VACCINE HAS BEEN APPROVED!!! )

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ex_angfucio June 9 2006, 10:50:05 UTC

Yeah Jason's sister has HPV.

Where the heck have you and 'Ruka been anyway??

aquariel June 10 2006, 11:59:49 UTC

It is the most common STD, unfortunately. :( And, since if people do not develope genital warts or abnormal paps, it's fairly undetectable. :(

Busy -- unfortunately, since the park started, we leave the house at 7:45, come back at 5:45 (or later if we need to get food) then go into the park at 7 or so, and come back at 10. :( Sadly, not a lot of time for lj.

ex_angfucio June 10 2006, 18:33:47 UTC

Well I'm just glad to see that you are still alive and kicking!! I have missed both of your posts. ♥

akarui_kibuno June 9 2006, 11:16:05 UTC

Whoah! I hope that reaches France, I'm SO getting one done to me! I'm all for protection like that o.o .

aquariel June 10 2006, 12:01:06 UTC

GSK is also manufacturing a vaccine that's not yet out -- they're a British company, though a lot of their pharmecuticals are used in the US. So even if Merck doesn't reach France, I'm sure GSK will. ^.^ And hopefully, once GSK goes into the market, the price will come down.

degreeabsolute June 11 2006, 12:28:21 UTC

If my memories are correct, Merck should get out there. My stepfatherworks for Aventis (Formerly Aventis Pasteur, briefly Merck-Connaught-Merieux [failed merger in the mid-90s], formerly Pasteur-Merieux-Connaught, formerly Connaught Laboratories), and they've both always had insane distribution networks.

Also, Merck's website shows they have five different offices in France. I assume they sell there as well.

hanamusume June 9 2006, 11:24:51 UTC

Cervical cancer has actually been a good fear of mine-I am very excited about this ^__^ Plus...a vaccine for a cancer? Who knows what this could lead to!

aquariel June 10 2006, 12:03:28 UTC

I know -- with my mother being an OB-GYN, and me working in her office, we see so many sad cases of young girls with CIN II or CIN III -- precancer and actual cancer. :( It's so sad -- and if this can be eliminated . . . ! Though, it's important to remember that it covers the most common causes of cervical cancer -- Strains 16 and 18, I think -- but rarely have other strains been proven to cause cervical cancer. So paps are still a good idea. ^.^ Still. . . .!

taiki June 9 2006, 11:27:54 UTC

Ah, but us cursed with a prostate will have to wait.

aquariel June 10 2006, 12:04:25 UTC

My mother's really disappointed that they didn't approve it for men. But hopefully that's only a delay of a few years -- they're already doing the testing to get it approved for me!

keita_yuki June 9 2006, 11:39:10 UTC

11-26 for age they let women get it >_> that bumps me out cause Im older. u_u

aquariel June 10 2006, 12:06:21 UTC

:( I know -- we were hoping they'd extend it to 30. I know that our PA (who turned 26 in Dec) is planning on getting it as soon as it comes out. :( Unforutnately, if they haven't tested it in older women, then it's not regarded as safe. . . :(