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Originally posted by Marroe
This is great. My aunt AND my grandmother both had cervical cancer, luckily they found it early and were able to get past it. And I know this puts me a greater risk of getting it also....s'why I get my lil tests done at the same time every year.
But I wonder about this....
I wonder why they can't give the vaccine to every woman?
At any rate it makes me happy to see that the world IS actually advancing in curing/preventing these kind of things
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I think that the reason they can only give it to girls who haven't been sexually active yet, is because they haven't been exposed to HPV. Therefore, the vaccine will prevent them from ever GETTING the HPV virus.
However, just b/c you're sexually active doesn't mean that you have HPV. I guess they're just helping to protect the population of girls who haven't been exposed to it yet...so that they don't get it :)
Hopefully it will eventually be available to all women though :)