Cervical Cancer Vaccination

Rather than read the telegraph read the MHRA statement that probably prompted the article. Puts things into perspective:

Suspected Adverse Reaction Analysis
CERVARIX Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine
12 March 2009
This report summarises the adverse reactions suspected to have been caused by Cervarix human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in the UK. This includes reports received between 14 April 2008 and 11 March 2009. These reports have been voluntarily submitted to the MHRA by healthcare professionals and members of the public via the Yellow Card Scheme (visit www.yellowcard.gov.uk) and by the manufacturers of the vaccine as part of their legal requirements.
It is essential to bear in mind that reports to the MHRA relate only to adverse medical events which the reporter considered could have been caused by the vaccine (i.e. if there was merely a suspicion of causality). Therefore, cases may be true side-effects or they may have been purely coincidental events due to underlying or undiagnosed illness that would have occurred anyway in the absence of vaccination. Events may also have been psychogenic1 in origin. This report therefore cannot be considered to represent a list of known side-effects of the vaccine. These data also cannot be used to determine the frequency, or incidence, of known side-effects because they are often under-reported. The known side-effects, and their frequencies (based on clinical trial data), are available in the product information (see http://emc.medicines.org.uk/).
The reactions in this report have been broken down into 5 categories based on scientific assessment of individual cases by MHRA assessors: injection-site reactions; allergic reactions; psychogenic events; other recognised reactions; and suspected adverse reactions not currently recognised (reactions in this latter category are divided into the high-level classification of System Organ Class)2. The same event term may appear in more than one category (e.g. rash may be associated with injection site, allergic or unrecognised suspected reactions and psychogenic events). However, an event from a single report will appear in only one category.
A single report may contain more than one reaction, more than one sign or symptom of a single reaction or different reactions in more than one of the above categories. Therefore, the total number of listed reactions is greater than the total number of reports and total reports in each of the 5 tables should not be added together.
Headline summary:
To date, the vast majority of suspected adverse reactions reported to MHRA in association with Cervarix vaccine have related either to the signs and symptoms of recognised side effects listed in the product information or were due to the injection process and not the vaccine itself (i.e. psychogenic in nature).
For the isolated cases of other medical conditions reported, the available evidence does not suggest that the vaccine caused the condition and these may have been coincidental events.
The balance of risks and benefits of Cervarix remains positive.

Total number of reports received: 1,352
Total number of suspected reactions: 2,927
Estimated number of doses administered: at least 700,000 doses3

If you want the full analysis go to the full document at

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:Zp9bb2SEDlMJ:www.mhra.gov.uk/home/idcplg%3FIdcService%3DGET_FILE%26dDocName%3DCON028377%26RevisionSelectionMethod%3DLatest+cervarix+adverse+reactions&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a


This is the article from the telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/women_shealth/4986930/Cervarix-the-simple-injection-causing-so-much-controversy.html

Please be informed that the above is the opinion of the author and is in no way meant to be taken as instruction.

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