Are cervical cancer vaccines the cause of many other cancers? Rumors are rife on the internet. Gardasil and Cervarix, the two vaccines against the papillomavirus, have been the subject of controversy since their birth in 2007. Gynecologists rise up to block rumors on this subject reveals France Inter.
Rumors of cancer due to Gardasil
At the beginning of December, Gérard Bapt, former president of the information mission on the Mediator and former deputy for Haute-Garonne declared “A debate must open on vaccination“about the papillomavirus in a letter to the Director General of Health, the President of the National Cancer Institute and the Director General of Public Health. According to him, it should be taken into consideration”data from cancer registries in four countries having massively vaccinated against the papillomavirus (HPV) over the past ten years“.
It is based on figures from Australia, Great Britain, Norway and Sweden where 80% of young girls are vaccinated against the papillomavirus, responsible for the 12th most common female cancer. According to him, cancers in women aged 20 to 24 are on the rise.
The French colposcopy society responds to poisoning
If we are to believe the rumors circulating on the internet, the vaccine would cause two types of diseases in women: multiple sclerosis and the neurological disease of Guillain-Barré syndrome. To answer these doubts and the attacks of politicians like Gerard Bapt, the French Society of Colposcopy and Cervico-Vaginal Pathology (SFCPCV) reacted.
Its president, Jean Gondry responds to figures used by Gérard Bapt, which date from 2014. Insofar as the vaccine began in 2007, young girls vaccinated around 12 years old are not the same as those in their twenties. years in 2014. The data is accurate but manipulated, taken out of context.
The risk of these false rumors? Curb vaccination coverage, while the papillomavirus still causes 3,000 new cases of cancer each year. In the pages of Parisian, Jean Gondry noted that between 2007 and today, the number of vaccines had fallen: from 30% to 18% currently.
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