HPV vaccines and cancer prevention, science versus activism

The rationale behind current worldwide human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination programs starts from two basic premises, 1) that HPV vaccines will prevent cervical cancers and save lives and, 2) have no risk of serious side effects. Therefore, efforts should be made to get as many pre-adolescent girl...

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Autores principales: Tomljenovic, Lucija, Wilyman, Judy, Vanamee, Eva, Bark, Toni, Shaw, Christopher A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3565961/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23369430
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1750-9378-8-6
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author Tomljenovic, Lucija
Wilyman, Judy
Vanamee, Eva
Bark, Toni
Shaw, Christopher A
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description The rationale behind current worldwide human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination programs starts from two basic premises, 1) that HPV vaccines will prevent cervical cancers and save lives and, 2) have no risk of serious side effects. Therefore, efforts should be made to get as many pre-adolescent girls vaccinated in order to decrease the burden of cervical cancer. Careful analysis of HPV vaccine pre- and post-licensure data shows however that both of these premises are at odds with factual evidence and are largely derived from significant misinterpretation of available data.
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spelling pubmed-35659612013-02-11 HPV vaccines and cancer prevention, science versus activism Tomljenovic, Lucija Wilyman, Judy Vanamee, Eva Bark, Toni Shaw, Christopher A Infect Agent Cancer Letter to the Editor The rationale behind current worldwide human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination programs starts from two basic premises, 1) that HPV vaccines will prevent cervical cancers and save lives and, 2) have no risk of serious side effects. Therefore, efforts should be made to get as many pre-adolescent girls vaccinated in order to decrease the burden of cervical cancer. Careful analysis of HPV vaccine pre- and post-licensure data shows however that both of these premises are at odds with factual evidence and are largely derived from significant misinterpretation of available data. BioMed Central 2013-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3565961/ /pubmed/23369430 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1750-9378-8-6 Text en Copyright ©2013 Tomljenovic et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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