Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine is derived from the protein material from human papilloma viruses without any of the genetic material associated with the virus. The CDC and FDA monitor the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (or VAERS). This system is a reporting mechanism for ANY adverse event after vaccination and allows detection of any safety concerns. There are known limitations in this system, such as the variable quality of data, variable reporting (both under reporting and stimulated reporting). This also fails to assess the link between cause and effect. Despite these limitations, this system is the best available and can be accessed by all concerned.
Out of more than 28 million doses of this vaccine given as of January of 2010, 16000 episodes of adverse events were reported to VAERS. Over 90 percent of them were not serious events and included irritation at the site of the injection, nausea, headaches and fainting episode, especially in the adolescent age group. It is recommended that the patients be vaccinated while they are sitting and observed for about 15 minutes for fainting spells before being released.
Regarding serious events that were reported, the most common was an entity called Venous Thrombotic Events (VTE). "Blood Clot in veins" in simple language! Investigations of these events showed co-morbid conditions such as obesity, oral contraceptives, smoking and other contributing factors that could explain these thrombotic events. Therefore, the association between vaccination and VTE appeared to be co-incidental rather than cause and effect. There was not a single event of mental retardation that has been linked in any form or fashion to this vaccine.
Death reports around the time of HPV vaccination were fully investigated and were discovered to be related to such conditions as Diabetes, Cardiac disease and viral illness. There was no unusual patterns suggesting that HPV vaccination caused any of these deaths.
In the final analysis, the benefit of HPV vaccination in the prevention of cervical cancer far outweighs the risks involved. It is my strong recommendation that any adverse event from any vaccination be reported to http://vaers.hhs.gov/index. Only through the concerted efforts of all involved will we be able to uncover hitherto unknown effects that may change our current recommendations regarding the safety of this vaccine.
Dr. Kumar is a board certified Radiation Oncologist who is co-founder of a private practice group in Florida. He has over 17 years experience dealing with cancer patients including several members in his own family who have been afflicted by this disease.
His philosophy of managing patients is through a unique holistic approach that takes into account the wishes and needs of patients and their families. He believes that any battle is won at the level of the mind first before the body goes into action to win the war. His website http://curingcancerofthemind.com reflects this philosophy.
He is always available to help any patient with questions regarding cancer and radiation therapy and can be reached at 772 293 0377.
By Ramesh T Kumar
February 23, 2012 at 8:23 PM
What is unique about the HPV vaccines that are proposed cancer cures is that there is on the average thirty five years from vaccination ( and potential harmful effects ) and any benefit. The CDC states that cervical cancer rate in the U.S. is 2.4 deaths per 100,000. The reported severe side effects is not some mere percentage of this rate, but TWICE the rate of cervical cancer. Furthermore, the reported adverse reactions generally represent 1 to 10 percent of the total adverse reactions.
So why would you vaccinate when the chance of dying or being severely disabled when you are fifteen is somewhere between two and ten times the chance of dying from cervical cancer when you are in mid life ( medium age is 49 )? I can see taking on risk for protection from an immediately life threatening event, especially when the risk are considerably less than suffering the event, but this is not the case with the HPV vaccines.
But you ask you can this be? If you care to investigate the track record of Merck in regards to a drug that they are liable for, you can see how. It is a well documented fact that Merck knowingly sought approval and marketed the pain relief drug Vioxx even though there was considerable evidence that this drug would cause heart attacks in healthy people. It is estimated that from thirty five thousand to one hundred and twenty thousand people died from heart attacks caused by this drug, before Vioxx was pulled from the marked. See chapter 7 in the book, The Bottom Line or Public Health, William Wiist Ed, published by Oxford University Press, 2010. If Merck will write off that many people from a drug that they must be liable for, how many people will they let die for a vaccine that they are shielded from liability ? Put in perspective, the death rate caused by one drug ( Vioxx ) was somewhere between two and five times the rate of death for cervical cancer. Now we are to trust Merck and the government that the deaths and disabling injuries that have happened to healthy girls have all be coincidental?
So, if you want your sons and daughters to be sacrificial guinea pigs for the alter of corporate profits, that is your choice. We are rejecting Gardasil.