Schoolgirls to receive cancer jabs
 

All girls aged 12 and 13 are to receive vaccinations against cervical cancer.
Schoolgirls in Year 8 will receive the jab in a programme which is expected to cost up to £100 million a year.
There will also be a two-year "catch-up" campaign starting in autumn 2009 for girls aged up to 18, costing up to £200 million a year.
This means girls aged 16 to 18 years (Years 12 and 13) will be offered the vaccine from autumn 2009.
Girls aged 15 to 17 years (Years 11 and 12) will be offered the jab from autumn 2010.
By the end of the catch-up campaign, all girls under the age of 18 should have been offered protection.

looks like my daughter will have to wait till 2009!!
wonder why they are not offering it all together??

anyway im all for it;)

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What a brilliant idea, anything that reduces the chances of getting cancer can only be classed as a good move IMO.

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A very good idea in my opinion. The vaccine is aimed at killing the papilloma virus which causes 99% of cervical cancers. This will stop thousands of women developing cervical cancer in later life.

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i'm all for it too, it will be something similar to the rubella injection i think (if you know what i mean)

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It is on the same lines, a great step forward!!!

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its excellent, my nan died of cervical cancer about 20 years ago, so it just shows how much research has improved since then

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just wonderingAttachment 10244, will the need for smear tests to be needed for these young girls as they get older?

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Should think smear tests will still be done.

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What a fantastic idea :) As having experience of the big CC this has to be a massive step in the right direction of eradicating this.

I'm well chuffed :D

Shame you can't have it when your older too

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yes i think that,s a good idar for them.

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Perhaps with it being a vaccine, (having, I imagine gone through several years of testing), it will take a while for them to produce enough to go around?

However I too am all for it. :)

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Anything that can keep this obscene disease at bay should be grabbed with both hands.Billions of pounds are being spent developing new drugs to extend the lives of suffering Cancer patients,if you can stop it before it happens it will save fortunes on treating sufferers. Once Cancer strikes there is no way of stopping it coming back('sometime). I personally started 20 years ago in the Colon, after the 2nd major operation 70% of it was removed.It came back 9 months later in the left Lung, part of that was removed. It is now in my right Lung close to the heart, and now undergoing lousy Chemotherapy treatment.This may have been avoided if I had not refused 'chemo' after my second Colon operation, but I did not feel strong enough. I have had jump through hoops to get now, as I refused it when it had more chance of success. The Oncologist was up against my wife, from then on it was no contest:D. The moral to the tale is refuse nothing that may save or extend your life.
This is not a sympathy seeking letter as I do not need it,purely 'educational' I love a good scrap "SO IT IS STILL NO QUARTER ON ANY SITE I'M ON:D"

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Thinks its brill, shame its not for older peeps as well, having just had lazer treatment for the second time ! Deffo coming back as a man next time.

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Just been on the news, smear tests will still be the norm.

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I'm all for any vaccination against any disease so this gets my vote.

I heard, a long time ago, that cervical cancer is almost unknown in nuns and Jewish women. We can draw our own conclusions from that, I think.