Cervical Cancer Vaccine

[ishtajardine]

i am a well-meaning person and id like to share my POV lang..

please i do not mean to offense anybody.

i have a cousin who works as a cythotechnologist in canada(as per google, Cytotechnologists are trained technologists to work with pathologists to detect changes in cellular material from all body sites in the early diagnosis of cancer and other diseases.) when i asked her about it, she said that the vaccine is unneccessary. the most impt thing is for you to be monogamous and have a yearly pap smear.

Sadly, i had the vaccine already. company benefits kasi at a much lower price. but im so scared to have the papsmear. pero i ought to one of these days.

good day.

i am a well-meaning person as well and i just want to correct things that needed correcting.

first and foremost, as an expert in the field of medicine, let me speak about certain things.  i wont divulge anymore what my specialty is, but suffice to say, what i know is more than apt for me to delineate between fact and fiction.

cytotechnologists are NOT doctors.  they are special kinds of medical technologists whose work are routinary and extremely manual.  they were trained to study cells, yes, but they are NOT trained to analyze and decide as what doctors are trained to do.  that was why you said that they work along with pathologists.  that is true.  they work with pathologists as the pathologists' assistants.  the brains behind the analyzing is still the pathologist.  that is why it is eyebrow-raising that your cousin, in her capacity as a cytotechnologist, would say that the vaccine is not necessary.  again ONLY doctors are trained to make a solid judgment about any disease entities.  assistants KNOW NOTHING...therefore, the things that they might say are purely opinion-based, thus does not hold bearing.

while a yearly pap smear may help in DETECTING any abnormality, in the event that there indeed is an abnormality, it may NOT help you cure it.  pap smear does NOT help also in preventing cervical cancer.  you mentioned the word "yearly" for pap smear.  any exposure to HPV during the entire year might lead to cancer.  again, pap smear only detects.  it does not prevent nor cure.  that is the role of HPV vaccines.

as with being monogamous, this is NOT a reliable factor in NOT catching HPV and developing cervical cancer.  YOU may be monogamous, but your partner is having sexual relations with prostitutes behind your back...now tell me HOW that will protect you from contracting HPV?  tell me.  now let's say that you are monogamous and your male partner is monogamous as well.  monogamy is defined as NOT having anyone else.  yes you two may be loyal to each other PRESENTLY, but then, count the number of exes you and your partner had before?  there's a fat chance that they gave either one of you HPV.  80% of women acquire the Human Papilloma Virus.  50% of them develop cervical cancer.  it is that alarming!  now, if one of your exes had HPV, chances are you might have one too.  if your present boyfriend is the first and only boyfriend that you have, the question is, are you his first girlfriend as well?  hence, we can not really be sure.  being monogamous wont help. 

anyway, it is a good thing you got the shot.  it does the entire female population a lot of good.

[cherryblossone]

i'm 27 na, pwede pa ba ako magpa-vaccine nito?

[danielleanne]

hello there.

you have stated that you have vaccine this year so on...

* how many times ba need magpacervical cancer vaccine? hindi ba once lang? every year ba ito?
thanks

[bleudskymd]

^ administration of the cervical vaccine follows a certain schedule. it is given 3x. when you seek consult with a ob-gyne & you are vaccinated, that is the 1st dose (counted as month 0). then, you come back after 2 months (after the 1st dose is given) for the second dose. the last & third dose is given 6 months (after the 1st dose is given). the first 2 doses are the most important because that's the time where you create antibodies against the virus. if you miss the last dose, it's ok as long as it will be given within 1 year after the 1st dose was given. otherwise, you just wasted everything. all in all, the vaccine is given within a span of 1 year to less than 1 1/2 years.

having 3 doses of the cervical vaccine is enough (hoping) for your protection. you don't have to repeat the entire cycle again.

btw, ob-gyne's instruct their female patients to avoid conceiving between cervical vaccinations. the inactivated virus which is the content of the vaccine maybe transmitted to the fetus which may lead to demise/congenital anomalies.

[girl.moto]

@ bleudskymd - so you're saying all 3 shots must really be completed for the vaccine to be effective? had my 2 shots already and i'm thinking of not taking the last one na till i read your post..;p

just curious though, do the shots come in sets and have various formulations or pareho lang naman sila? like can i take my last one elsewhere than where i took my first 2 shots? i'll be in phils kasi this jan and that's my sched for my 3rd..

thank you..

[septembernine]

i only had 2 shots and failed to take the last one..i hope walang side effect

[ishtajardine]

i'm 27 na, pwede pa ba ako magpa-vaccine nito?

any female from age 9 to 65 can have cervical vaccine administration.

[ishtajardine]

hello there.

you have stated that you have vaccine this year so on...

* how many times ba need magpacervical cancer vaccine? hindi ba once lang? every year ba ito?
thanks

for a cervical vaccine to be effective, you need at THREE shots. 

[ishtajardine]

@ bleudskymd - so you're saying all 3 shots must really be completed for the vaccine to be effective? had my 2 shots already and i'm thinking of not taking the last one na till i read your post..;p

just curious though, do the shots come in sets and have various formulations or pareho lang naman sila? like can i take my last one elsewhere than where i took my first 2 shots? i'll be in phils kasi this jan and that's my sched for my 3rd..

thank you..

same formulation but different adjuvants.  yes you need to take your last shot and you may take the last shot elsewhere.  no problem with that.

[girl.moto]

@ishtajardine, thank you! i'll probably just have to mention na 3rd shot ko na sya right?

[sasha``]

hi mga sis,  tanong ko po.   if my partner and i are both monogamous and he was my only bf and i was his only gf when we weren't married yet, do i still need the shots? 

hubby asked me weeks ago that same question, at biniro ako na if i have the shots, it's a subtle hint na he can fool around na, because anyway im protected naman daw.     

[kim103]

correct me if im wrong sabi ng obgyne ko ang 2nd shot is after a month and ang 3rd shot is after 3monts ng 2nd shot.

[mooncake and leaves]

^ mine is 2 months after first shot then the 3rd shot is 4 months after 2nd shot.

[polykarblush]

Is it okay to get a shot while I'm currently taking acnetrex?

[kim103]

^^ wah, nalito na ko..

[prettymish98]

mine is 2 consecutive months for 2 shots and the last shot will be done after delivery pero hindi pa naman ako buntis. but as per my OB pag nabuntis na daw ako at nanganak dun pa lang ang last shot. cervaryx ang binigay nya sakin.

[chrislovestintin]

^^ wah, nalito na ko..

lito sa vaccination schedules?  There are 2 cervical cancer vaccines currently available in the market and they have different vaccination schedules.  Cervarix at 0, 1, and 6 months and the other one if I'm not mistaken is at 0, 2 and 6 months.  0 is the day you had your 1st shot.

[kim103]

^ oic different brand, different schedule pala yan. thanks sis for clearing that up!

[tsokolat]

got my last shot this morning! medyo mabigat lang yung left arm ko pero i know worth it naman ito

[oracLe]

Basta dapat yung Gardasil, wag Cervarix. Kasi mas madami napeprevent yung Gardasil.