Cancer Prevention With Shots

Worldwide, cervical cancer comes in second in the number of cancer deaths in women. In the United States alone, 10,000 women have cervical cancer. Another estimated 14,000 people are diagnosed with liver and intrahepatic bile duct cancer in the United States. Certain cancer preventions encompass getting shots, but there are side effects to almost every drug on today's market. Two different shots are given to prevent cervical and liver cancer.

Gardasil Protects Against Cervical Cancer

• Doctors recommend girls between the ages 11 and 12 should receive the Gardasil vaccination, but girls as young as nine years old can receive this shot as well. Before girls become sexually active is when the shots are most effective. If you are a sexually active woman up to the age of 26, you can still receive this shot, but it will not fully protect you if you are exposed to certain types of HPV.

  Texas is the first state to make this vaccine mandatory for school-age girls.

How the HPV Shot is Given and Who Shouldn't Receive the Shot

• You receive three different shots for the vaccine. The first one will be in the arm or thigh. The next shot comes two months later and the third shot another four months later. Researchers do not know whether women will need a booster shot to keep them protected.

  Women who are acutely ill or who are allergic to yeast should not receive this shot. If you are pregnant or trying to become pregnant, do not have this shot.

Gardasil Warnings

• The warning labels for the shots report that you might experience soreness or redness in the area of the shot. You may get headaches or fever. More results are coming back from patients who received the Gardasil shot. It may prevent cervical cancer, but other side effects are becoming dangerous. This vaccine can cause loss of consciousness or even seizures. Many young girls now have severe headaches, and some have temporarily lost their vision. Others report of muscle weakness, paralysis, swelling in the brain and death.

  Additionally, one of the ingredients found in the HPV vaccine is sodium borate, which is also found in rat poison.

Cervarix

• Gardasil may be replaced by Cervarix, a drug that came out in 2007. The FDA is anxious to approve this drug, but young girls in England have experienced dangerous side effects from these shots. Dizziness, numbness, fever and muscle weakness that practically takes away your ability to stand are some of the side effects that have been reported.

Hepatitis B Vaccine

• Hepatitis B vaccine may reduce liver cancer. In the early 1980s, this vaccine became available all over the world. The Hepatitis B vaccination is three shots. The child receives the first one shortly after birth. He then receives two more booster shots usually during the first year of life.

  The American Cancer Society urges people to have their children immunized, as this is the first effective cancer-prevention vaccine. However, some researchers believe that the hepatitis B virus may cause liver cancer.