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Preventing Cancer: The Far-Reaching Impact of Vaccines (JHU Public Health)
My only regret in life was not getting the HPV vaccine. I may still have an entire organ system in my body. This vaccine could eradicate cervical cancer (the fourth most common cancer in women), with Australia on track to fully eliminate it by 2030. Let’s sit with that for a second. We could, in a reasonable timeframe, eradicate a form of cancer (the way we had eradicated measles and smallpox, had being the key term). This vaccine also reduces the risk of head and neck cancer in boys HBV vaccines have significantly reduced the transmission of the Hepatitis B Virus, which has led to a decrease in liver cancer cases. Prevention is the cure, and these established vaccines (and the cancer vaccines in development) could be the cancer eradicating moonshot we’ve been waiting for - as long as we all get vaccinated... Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to hitha to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. A subscription gets you:
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