HPV/cervical cancer vaccine prevention strategies

Discuss your prevention strategies, share your stories and help others ask the right questions about the HPV vaccine.

could he already have had the virus before me

ugh4nothing
  • By ugh4nothing · New reply 7:34 pm
  • 5 replies
  • My boyfriend is 51, and has had at 5 partners in his lifetime, each of these partners has had at least 5, and each of them...... well you see where I am going. 3 years ago, without haveing any other than ...

Positive Experience with LEEP

mmk1383
  • By mmk1383 · New reply 11:08 am
  • 13 replies
  • Please share your positive experiences with LEEP. I think it would inspire many women to make the right decisions to get it done, while most of these postings make it very fearful ...

ok....about the leep hurting post earlier

tnsweetness
  • By tnsweetness · New reply yesterday at 2:51 pm
  • 3 replies
  • ok i talked to the nurse this morning and heres what everything is going on my pap showed LGSIL nothing bad,my biopsy showed benign mucus inflammation, the reason she wants to do the leep is to keep the ...

does a leep hurt?

tnsweetness
  • By tnsweetness · New reply yesterday at 1:22 pm
  • 14 replies
  • ok the doctor just called and said my biopsy results were benign,NO CANCER!!!I thank god for that... she said that it was low very low cell changes and they want to do a leep on me in a couple weeks ...

pelvic exenteration

Pammy1
  • By Pammy1 · New reply January 6, 2009
  • 16 replies
  • Has anyone here had a pelvic exenteration , or know someone who has ? I was hoping to find a survivor . My friend is headed that direction , and I wanted to find her more hope than I can give . Thank ...

bleeding after a biopsy

tnsweetness
  • By tnsweetness · New reply January 6, 2009
  • 7 replies
  • i had a biopsy on the 29th of december, 4 days ago,no bleeding at all, untill today,i am bleeding like a period, but its bright red and its not time for my period untill another week or a little over ...

had my colop/biopsy done today

tnsweetness
  • By tnsweetness · New reply December 31, 2008
  • 2 replies
  • well i went and had my biopsy done today...i was uncomfortable but was able to stand it, i barely spotted, i am having no discharge,or the what looks like to be coffee grains come out, i hope thats a ...

Finding out my fate today...

LRose
  • By LRose · New reply December 30, 2008
  • 5 replies
  • Hello again all! I am heading to my Gyno this afternoon. I am a bit nervous... I am going to find out what the oncologist and doctor have decided to do. It will either be that I need ANOTHER LEEP (would ...

OMG

tnsweetness
  • By tnsweetness · New reply December 29, 2008
  • 7 replies
  • i just went to schedule my biopsy appt. i am so tore up that there were 2 nurses that tried to explain it to me, heres what they told me, i have high risk hpv,when i asked them what strains they read ...

Learning the Hard Way

BetsyK
  • By BetsyK · New reply December 20, 2008
  • 6 replies
  • So, my Dr told me I had HPV around 6 months ago, being young and ignorant about the condition I kinda blew it off thinking nothing can happen to me. So I had a coloscopy followed by a leep. Nothing too ...

Question about GARDASIL?

TiffanyB
  • By TiffanyB · New reply December 11, 2008
  • 5 replies
  • Ok so i am positive for the HPV # 16 for cervical cancer i have been for at least a year and a half and now sence my boyfriend cheated on me i have # 18 as well My boyfriend wants me to get that gardasil ...

cancer news: drugs and nutrition

Pirkar
  • By Pirkar · New reply November 21, 2008
  • 2 replies
  • Hi everyone! Here some links to cancer news : 1. HPV helps cervical cancer to resist treatment and grow and spread http://www.cancercompass.com/cancer-news /1,14999,00.htm 2. Folic Acid, B Vitamins Offer ...

CALLING ALL LATINAS W/ HPV OR CC in CALIF

ShaundraNCCC-AZ
  • By ShaundraNCCC-AZ · Posted November 13, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • Ladies- Univision in California wants to do an interview with a latina(s) with HPV or cervical cancer - TODAY Thursday 11-13-08. If you are interested or have someone interested, please contact me right ...

Confused about HPV Results???

nowhopeful
  • By nowhopeful · New reply November 13, 2008
  • 5 replies
  • OK, I was once diagnosed with High risk HPV (tested positive) but Low risk HPV can back negative. Well, following a cryo surgery, pap, and culp, I was tested negative for High risk HPV and negative for ...

New HPV Vaccine Under Development

corellin
  • By corellin · New reply November 8, 2008
  • 3 replies
  • Here's a link to an article about a new vaccine under development in Australia & New Zealand. This one would prevent HPV strains causing 90% of cervical cancer (compared to 70% for Gardasil). This news ...

Should parents have their children vaccinated with FDA approved vaccine??

aileen
  • By aileen · New reply November 7, 2008
  • 9 replies
  • The question here is NOT regarding mandatory vaccination issues. This is about a question on parenting minor children and parents helping their children reduce the odds of developing a cancer later in ...

Latest issue of HPV Today

corellin
  • By corellin · New reply October 29, 2008
  • 1 reply
  • Hi -- Attached is a link (I hope) to the latest issue of HPV today that focuses on vaccination strategies in Italy. It also has data/statistics on the benefits of combined HPV testing/pap smear after ...

Brussels HPV conference (2007) & celebrities

corellin
  • By corellin · Posted October 16, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • Here's a link to a world conference on HPV and it looks like a lot of the key speakers were women -- and some were princesses. This highlights the burden of HPV around the world and what different world ...

Nobel prize winner says even young men can get the vaccine

Kimpossible
  • By Kimpossible · New reply October 15, 2008
  • 4 replies
  • 11.10.2008 German Nobel Prize Winner Slams Pharmaceutical Firms Germany's Harald zur Hausen, who won the Nobel Prize in medicine for research into cervical cancer, spoke out against the high cost of a ...

I want help other women learn the risks of hpv!

chrissy13
  • By chrissy13 · New reply October 14, 2008
  • 4 replies
  • Hi Everyone, After going through the horror of HPV and cervical dysplasia myself, I want to help educate other women of the importance of the HPV test and the risk factors of HPV. When I found out I had ...

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