Bucharest Family Doctors Advise Parents To Go In For Uterine Cancer Vaccine For Girls

Statistics shown by doctor Cristian Sever Oana in a conference organized by the Bucharest-Ilfov Family Doctors’ Association indicate that 10 out of 100,000 women in Romania suffer from uterine cancer, while three out of these die because of the disease.

“Unfortunately, the age of women suffering from uterine cancer has decreased a lot, and 5% of the women aged 20 to 30 have shown signs of this disease,” Oana said.

“Moreover, the Human Papiloma Virus causes warts on the skin, thus 25% of the people with such warts are carriers of the virus. (…) We are not talking about new medication, but about a vaccine received by millions of women in the past six years and a half since it became available on the market. Moreover, these vaccines have been introduced in several European countries’ national immunization programs (…),” the doctor said.

Girls who do not get the vaccine now because their parents won’t allow it, might do so when they are 14 years old and can choose for themselves.

In Europe, 1.5 million women were vaccinated in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Luxemburg, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, where the vaccine was introduced in national healthcare programs.

In the United States, 16 million women received the vaccine. No side effects have been reported after using the vaccine in the USA and in Europe, and no connection was found between the deaths of the women who had previously been vaccinated and the respective product, Oana said.