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...Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently advised parents to have their middle-school-aged daughters vaccinated against a common sexually transmitted disease closely linked to cervical cancer. But legislators in 10 states are seeking to go one step further and require vaccinations against the human papillomavirus (HPV) for all girls entering middle school...
...increasingly common sexually transmitted disease and one that scientists say is linked to 70% of all cases of cervical cancer. Gardasil, the first vaccine to fight cancer, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration last June. The CDC says the vaccine has been tested, is safe and goes a long way toward preventing the deadly cancer which is estimated to have affected 9,710 women in 2006, killing...
...Sarah Wells, senior public policy director for Women in Government, which champions the mandatory vaccination legislation, said that in addition to Kentucky and Michigan, at least eight other states and the District of Columbia are weighing making the vaccine mandatory this year. "We know that cervical cancer is 100% preventable, we know what causes it," Wells said. "We also know that by taking this vaccine young women can prevent two strains of HPV that together cause 70% of all cervical cancer cases. That's why we have made it one of our priorities...
...American Cancer Society and other agencies say preventing HPV can greatly eliminate the chance of developing cervical cancer. The Kentucky legislation, similar to the proposals in other states, would require girls who are middle-schoolers at public or private schools - including home-schooled children - to be vaccinated within two weeks of the start of the school year. The treatment typically requires three shots, and is administered over about a six-month period...
...issue is getting a lot of attention this year, in part because women like Stein have been elevated to powerful positions within the state legislatures. Wells said newly elected majority floor leaders in both the Indiana and Illinois senates have made women's health care - and cervical cancer prevention - priorities...