Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide, as screening is not widely done in many countries. It's the leading cause of cancer-related mortality in sub-Saharan African women; a one time vaccine could be their only chance to prevent this lethal disease.
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Everyone is posting about HPV today. Must have missed the news. But...https://twitter.com/biopharmasleuth/status/1301298393063489536?s=21 …
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Tests don't prevent cancer: they detect it.
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PAP tests don’t prevent anything. They DETECT.
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Exactly.
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Pap smears don’t do much for anal or oral cancers
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What about the young men who get oral cancer? HPV vaccine is to reduce cancer in BOTH genders.
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It's a diagnostic test, not a treatment or preventive.
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Not to mention oral anal penile and vulval cancers of course
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Or genital warts , which have been close to eradicated with widespread hpv vaccination
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