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Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Australia is set to be the first country to eliminate cervical cancer, aided by its national vaccination and screening programs, says a new study. The country is on track to meet the threshold of four or less new cases per 100,000 women each year, effectively eliminating the cancer by 2028, finds the new study published Wednesday. The cancer could be classified as "rare" as early as 2022, meeting a threshold of six new cases per 100,000 and deaths due to the diseases are expected to decline to one new case per 100,000 women by 2034. But this is all contingent on Australia's high vaccination coverage and screening being maintained, write the study authors.
An estimated 99.7% of cervical cancer cases are caused by infection with Human Papillomavirus (HPV), a group of viruses that spread though sexual intercourse and skin-to-skin contact around the genitals. In their new study, the researchers at Cancer Council NSW modeled data on HPV vaccination, natural history of the disease, and cervical screening to estimate the age-incidence of cervical cancer in Australia from 2015 to 2100. Currently, Australia reports seven cases of cervical cancer per 100,000 women, according to the study. As well as eliminating the disease within 20 years, the data showed that the annual incidence of cervical cancer will decrease and remain at fewer than one case per 100,000 women if screening for HPV every five years continues and as long as people have been offered the vaccine.
An estimated 99.7% of cervical cancer cases are caused by infection with Human Papillomavirus (HPV), a group of viruses that spread though sexual intercourse and skin-to-skin contact around the genitals. In their new study, the researchers at Cancer Council NSW modeled data on HPV vaccination, natural history of the disease, and cervical screening to estimate the age-incidence of cervical cancer in Australia from 2015 to 2100. Currently, Australia reports seven cases of cervical cancer per 100,000 women, according to the study. As well as eliminating the disease within 20 years, the data showed that the annual incidence of cervical cancer will decrease and remain at fewer than one case per 100,000 women if screening for HPV every five years continues and as long as people have been offered the vaccine.
You've got to be one stone cold prick to think that cancer is an appropriate punishment for having pre-marital sex. How can you be such a horrible person as to say 'Well honey, you made Jesus sad, so now you have to die miserably.' They're literally using disease as a cudgel to help enforce their views on sexuality. Congratulations, you've literally partnered with cancer, way to demonstrate your moral superiority.
Of all the evidence that the religious right is full of shit, this sure is some of it.
As an evangelical God worshipper, I fully support the HPV vaccine (and my children have been vaccinated for HPV and all other diseases as per the recommended schedule) and I don't support a lot of what Trump has done, nor did I vote for him.
I know, sample size of one and all, but we're not all anti-science.
You are also welcome on my lawn. Sorry some of my fellow Christians have behaved so poorly.
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I belong to a Christian community and am from Australia where the vaccine was invented and there is ZERO objection to it here.
The real problem is your screwed up healthcare system that throws poor people on the scrapheap of humanity.
Our vaccination rates are high, simply because it is given free of charge to all school girls during school hours. No need to drag your bigotry into the discussion.
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The kind of evangelicalism I'm talking about is unique to the United States.
We've tried to have the HPV given to school children, but the evangelicals have blocked every single effort. We even had such a program going in Texas, if you can believe it, but the governor and lieutenant governor, one of whom used to be a radio host on an evangelical-owned network, made it their personal mission to stop the program.
Christians are fine people. But American evangelicals have nothing to do with christianity, I'm afraid.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Brother, you come to my house any time. I can't imagine what it's like to be a devout believe in a faith that is being so badly misused by horrible people.
Here is a famous photo of Donald Trump being "anointed" by a group of evangelical "leaders". There's a similar photo, taken right after inauguration, with Trump attorney Michael Cohen standing behind him. Cohen is the one who Trump had pay off the porn star and the playboy model.
https://goo.gl/images/ux8VE9
You are welcome on my lawn.
Thats the thing though. These people are all about punishing women.
Think about all the arguments used for abortion. If someones not prepared to send a woman to death row for an abortion, one must conclude they don't *really* think its murder. And its not about health. And since the same people that want to ban abortion start hollering about communism when its suggested they might pay a little bit more tax to ensure a single mother has food to feed her child, its pretty clear they don't give a fuck about what to do with the child they forced on the woman.
Which really only leaves punishment. Banning abortion is to punish women for sex.
And so is opposing the HPV vaccine. And in this case, the stakes are even higher. Have sex, get cancer, that'll learn you for disobeying sky jesus.
Excuse the Unicode crap in my posts. That's an apostrophe, and slashdot is busted.
People who want fathers (or even alleged fathers) to pay child support for children they didn't ask for, for 225+ months, use the exact same arguments and reasoning as those who want to force women to carry parental responsibilities they didn't want for 9 months.
[T]he vaccine is of zero benefit to him because he has no cervix
Well ... perhaps not zero benefit. He does have a throat I take it.
Which is in no way to disagree with your actual point, that this, and imo many other vaccines, ought to be freely available, where your argument should be irresistible.
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We might disagree on theology, but I respect your philosophy and your right to believe. I wish more were as tolerant as you.
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I don't think the parent was trying to say anything about the profession - it's the *evangelicals* who have the problem, but gave 45 a pass. I believe he is commenting on the hypocrisy.
Initially it was given to only girls for free because of a bit of cost/benefit analysis. Following exposure, HPV causes cervical cancer at a higher rate than it causes penile cancer. Other cancers caused by HPV are even lower down on the list. The assumption was if you can knock it out in females then that will have a largely dampening effect on the already very small numbers of male cancers. The ideal was always known to be vaccinating boys, but someone has to pay for this.
Anyway, the argument is now moot here, since - as others have pointed out - it is freely available to boys now, too.
When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."
Literally, topic. You cannot eliminate certain type of cancer by eliminating one of the risk factors. The claim is patently absurd.
Thats the thing though. These people are all about punishing women.
Think about all the arguments used for abortion.
You left out the most telling point. The people who are wish to ban abortion in all cases, are also overwhelmingly opposed to the availability of other forms of birth control, which if used - shall we say "religiously"? - would prevent said abortions from even being an issue. They are even opposed to accurate education about sex.
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