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Sabtu, 29 Oktober 2011

Prevent Cervical Cancer, HPV-Vaccinated Children

 
Cervix or cervical cancer is a silent killer with the second largest number of cases of death after breast cancer. The lack of early symptoms of cancer is detected when making new cancer has entered an advanced stage and difficult to help.
The physician experts from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that U.S. boys aged 11-12 years vaccinated with HPV or Human Papilloma Virus.
Why? HPV is a group of viruses that spread by contact between skin and sexual contact. There are about 100 types of HPV, but only 15 types of them that causes interference with the genitals, vulva, anus to cause cervical and vaginal cancer.
Vaccination boys before entering the sexually active can help prevent transmission of HPV through sexual intercourse with a partner in the future. During this time, HPV vaccination is recommended only to women and girls who have not entered the sexually active period.
Anne Schuchat of the CDC for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases said that the new HPV vaccine Gardasil made for small children. Only 44 percent of girls receive the HPV vaccine, and only 27 percent of girls who get three complete HPV vaccination. And although the HPV vaccination Gardasil has been tested and can safely be used for boys, who earn only 1.5 percent of HPV vaccination.
Various studies released cervical cancer most often associated with HPV. Research in the U.S. that was published in the journal Lancet said, 50 percent of men probably infected with the virus and can spread to the couple.
Experts recommend that the vaccine is given three times for girls ages 9 to adult women. They also suggested that parents vaccinate boys when aged 11-12 years. Useful to protect the occurrence of cervical cancer for women or high-risk carriers.
Association of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the U.S. also recommends that sexually active women who self-examined every three years instead of annually.
"The relationship between infection at a young age and progression of cancer 20-40 years later is not known," wrote Dr. Charlotte Haug in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
"The impact of vaccines actually can be determined only through clinical trials and long-term follow-up. However, we believe, this vaccine is not harmful," said Schuchat of the HPV vaccine.


 Source: www.vivanews.com

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