HPV vaccination: How the world can eliminate cervical cancer

Re:HPV vaccination: How the world can eliminate cervical cancer by selimnairb on Saturday November 09, 2024 @12:59PM (#42095774)

I got it when I was around 40. Before getting the three doses, I would get 3-4 nasty viral sore throats per year (white blistery lesions, very painful). Now I get zero. I was probably on my way to getting throat cancer like Michael Douglas. Hopefully I have avoided or at least forestalled that.

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Re:HPV vaccination: How the world can eliminate cervical cancer by ivewonyoung on Saturday November 09, 2024 @04:11PM (#42096919)

Thought it doesn't help against the strains that you're already infected with? Hence the min and max ages in the guidance.

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Re:HPV vaccination: How the world can eliminate cervical cancer by throwitawayfam on Saturday November 09, 2024 @05:16PM (#42097257)

There is some evidence that it can help against self inoculation and immune response to an existing infection

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/articles/10....

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00908...

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Re:HPV vaccination: How the world can eliminate cervical cancer by abracadaniel on Saturday November 09, 2024 @05:18PM (#42097267)

From what I’ve seen, it’s been shown to be effective against existing infections, as well as preventing it from progressing to cancer.

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Re:HPV vaccination: How the world can eliminate cervical cancer by Avalaxy on Saturday November 09, 2024 @05:52PM (#42097425)

I can't find anything about this, do you have any papers?

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Re:HPV vaccination: How the world can eliminate cervical cancer by toomim on Saturday November 09, 2024 @06:55PM (#42097661)

I don't think it's been tested in studies, but I can offer that I had hand warts for 7 years until I got the HPV vaccine, and the hand warts suddenly disappeared after dose 2.

HPV functions by cloaking itself from your immune system. The reason why treatments like freezing work is not by removing the HPV -- it's by stimulating your immune system to look at the area around the wart. Then your immune system can get past the cloaking, and recognize the HPV, and then it destroys it.

So functionally, it makes total sense that the HPV vaccine would clear existing infections, and anecdotally, lots of patients (such as myself) have seen HPV clear after getting the vaccine. It's a shame that our bureaucracy doesn't have the incentives to run the studies to acknowledge it institutionally.

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Re:HPV vaccination: How the world can eliminate cervical cancer by wsc981 on Sunday November 10, 2024 @03:04AM (#42099028)

From my understanding most vaccines have never been compared against placebo trials, but would be happy to be proven wrong, e.g. if you can find a study on HPV vaccine.

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Re:HPV vaccination: How the world can eliminate cervical cancer by selimnairb on Sunday November 10, 2024 @07:40AM (#42099890)

First hit on DDG: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/1

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Re:HPV vaccination: How the world can eliminate cervical cancer by wsc981 on Sunday November 10, 2024 @06:30PM (#42103358)

Page doesn't seem to work.

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