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'One in 10 girls has STD linked to cancer by 16'

dailymail.co.uk — At least one in 10 teenage girls is carrying a sexually-transmitted disease which could give them cancer, shocking figures revealed

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  • BrainInAJar, on 10/10/2007, -4/+123You have to have sex to get an STD...

    You're on digg...

    I think you'll be fine
  • Buddhist, on 10/10/2007, -7/+76As a sixteen year old, allow me to be the first to say: *****.
  • Nereus90, on 10/10/2007, -1/+40Moral of the story: Don't have sex with more than nine different girls.
  • Ebacherville, on 10/10/2007, -7/+30Guess what, being born is the number one cause of cancer.. no matter what you do you are likely going to get some cancer in your body before you die.. Once your born its already to late.
  • hotspot102, on 10/10/2007, -14/+35We should be more concerned about the amount of carcinogens that are finding there ways into our food, our environment and our products.
  • OisinT, on 10/10/2007, -3/+22Remind me not to bang any 16 year olds in the UK.
    Great... now Chris Hanson is checking my profile :(
  • TheRemoteViewer, on 10/10/2007, -11/+29Good thing there's a vaccine now for this! Too bad that in the US conservatives have blocked any effort to deploy it on a wide scale, preferring the inevitable cervical cancer causes to the possibility of promoting promiscuity.
  • Jo9100, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19I couldn't agree more... why all those girls have sex enough to get STDs but I can't?
  • capiCrimm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16well I'm glad you digg users cleared that up for me. I might as well go back to using those dirty heroin needles.
  • goddex, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15FTA: The decision caused controversy, with some claiming the jab would promote promiscuity among young girls.

    Do 12 year old children really know or care what they're being vaccinated for? All I remember about getting vaccinated is that it made my arm hurt.
  • btgoss, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15They can't have ANGRY sex... sheesh... do your learnin's... you don't want to sound ignorant...
  • jkizzle, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16if i lived on a dreary island full of crooked teeth and cockney accents, id probably never have sex.
  • wadetv, on 10/10/2007, -11/+25Sluts. Gotta love em.
  • Gtitian, on 10/10/2007, -4/+16It's a virus that causes cancer, not some stress, or mystical imbalance in their calcium levels, or imbalanced chi, or a vitamin deficiency, a virus. You go fight virus's with b-17, the rest of us will take medicine. Dumb ass.
  • AricC, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13It sucks to be that chic in the picture I'm already thinking, man what a nasty skank.
  • ThreeDee912, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Do you have to capitalize Sex?
  • Leo21k, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11How many teen girls you know who would ask their parents for the vaccination because they are having sex?
  • gmprunner, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12If you want the first reason, just look at the title of the website your on.
  • mykool, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11We should also be concerned that there is no way to test a man for HPV. Wear your condoms boys, if for no other reason. You could be spreading this and never ever know.
  • schnikies79, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Condom's don't protect all that well against HPV. HPV is spread by skin to skin contact, so the areas touching around the condom can transfer the virus. Still a good idea though.
  • Gtitian, on 10/10/2007, -4/+14Wrong. The reason we don't have polio anymore? Mandatory vaccination. You can only destroy a disease if EVERYONE recieves the vaccination. There are plenty of mandatory vaccinations out there, you've likely received all of them. Sorry to burst your bubble on this one, but your rights are subservient to the will of the masses.
  • Gtitian, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11men get HPV, though the symptoms are different. It doesn't cause cancer for us guys, but it can eventually make your life miserable, and you'll be sure to spread it to the women you have sex with.
  • lavchan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Yeah, we get it, OK. Nobody on Digg has sex. Hilarious. Done with the joke now.
  • shawnanigans, on 10/10/2007, -0/+916 is legal in the UK so Chris Hanson can suck it.
  • slipkn0tz23, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Subway Toilet?
  • FDDIcent, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12Dude, your a buddhist. I thought you guys couldn't have sex?
  • ibone, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12Only ugly chicks get this right?
  • AtWorkSurfer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Thanks to the Pap smear, frank invasive cancer of the cervix has become relatively uncommon. Ask any gynecologist, and (s)he'll tell you that (s)he finds maybe one case every two years or so. When it does happen, it's always the same story: "Well, doc, I came in because, for the past 6 months, I've been having bleeding after intercourse. My last pap smear was maybe about 10 years ago. I remember they called me and told me it was abnormal and I needed to come back in, but I just never got around to it."
    Once the HPV mediated changes have advanced to invasive cancer, then you've got a real problem, but that takes several years, and up until then, cervical dysplasia (precancer) can be fairly reliably detected by the Pap smear, and in most cases the process can be arrested before it's too late.
    The only commercially available vaccine in the US is Gardasil, which only protects against infection by four of the dozens of human papillomavirus types that exist. Gardasil protects against types 6 and 11, which cause genital warts, and types 16 and 18, which together account for about 70% of cases of cervical cancer. So, being vaccinated can greatly reduce, but not eliminate, a woman's chances of dying of cervical cancer, and it won't prevent abnormal pap smears and all the unpleasant things women have to go through once they are found to have cervical dysplasia.
  • mediaspree, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Would the CDC be of any help http://www.hpvforum.com/cdc.asp "While results vary by population studied, and sampling and detection methods used, overall they indicate that prevalence of genital HPV infection in sexually active young women in the United States ranges from 17–84%"
  • trump48257, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Actually to tell you the truth (as a medial professional) this is near-myth. The chance of transmission via a toilet seat is essentially next to nothing (although I still hate public toilets). It is true however that many STDs can be acquired via routes other than sex.
  • MaynardJK, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Iit means you can bang as many as you want as long as they are under 16.
  • ZephyrNinety, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9In other news, now that we're living in the 80's and the first lubricated condom has been released, we should be fine.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Why on earth is tracker geting dugg up ? Guys DO get HPV. Most don't know it because it doesn't have any effect on them. But they still have it. And who do you think is GIVING it to the girls?
    Tracker198x posts an obvnoxious, and clearly inaccurate comment and he gets dugg up? What is WRONG with Dgig these days?
  • diggdowner, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Spoken like a true christard!
  • Animal, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8I find your argument unpersuasive.
    Are you implying that orgies being in style and marriage being out of style in Rome single handedly led to the collapse of the Roman Empire and that it was because of STDs? I'm not sure that's a very plausible or supportable claim but I'm no history expert so correct me if you like.

    Your analogy with "Children of Men" is interesting. Although I think that this theoretical situation of a manufactured epidemic could just as easily be a disease that is spread through means other than sex, and would likely be much more effective in other forms as well. Just because a disease has an effect on human reproduction doesn't mean it has to be transmitted through sex.

    As a twist on your doomsday idea, imagine that for whatever reason the world in "Children of Men" became reality and humans couldn't reproduce. Now what would happen if sex in that 'doomed' world was only allowed in marriage? I think it's a reasonable assumption that there would be far less sex going on than in the same 'doomed' world with massive sexual promiscuity. So which would be better? We would certainly want to get back to being able to reproduce, and more people having more sex more often seems to be the option that would lead to a greater chance of finding some combination of man and woman that were able to reproduce (i.e. a couple with natural immunity). Just food for thought.

    But overall I think the actual threat to human kind from any current STDs, even HIV, is pretty low compared to the wealth of diseases that are much more contagious. People have been having sex out of marriage for all of recorded history, and young people have been having sex all that time as well. Besides the fact that it's normal and there's nothing wrong with it at all, there's also the fact that you just can't make young people not want to have sex. Since it's so pointless to try and force abstinence on people, we can at least provide education and access to technologies that can prevent the transmission of STD's.

    Lastly I'm not so sure about your claiming that 'most cultures around the world treat sexual promiscuity outside of marriage as a big social taboo.' In most of the developed world, I'd have a hard time believing that anyone other than very religious people see it as much of a taboo. I'd wager that most of the taboo around it is almost entirely because of religious dogma.
  • ahze, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10This is just an advertisement tactic from the HPV suppliers.
  • btgoss, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8So you didn't really read the article....
  • schnikies79, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6There is no sure-fire to test males for HPV. If a male develops warts, those can be tested, but otherwise you really can't. It's always a good idea to be tested for other STD's though, and it's usually free. Many STD's are 100% treatable.
  • OisinT, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7It's like a god to him. I mean, he doesn't KNOW it exists... but he hears a lot about it and he believes in it. Haven't you ever heard of faith?
    I mean.... just believing that if he's realllllllllllllly good........ someday man.... someday he'll get it!
  • davidrools, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9your hand won't give you HPV
  • Webbster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I wanna be one less. ONE LESS !
  • mediaspree, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Some interesting stats I researched for all you doubters: http://www.hpvforum.com/how-common-is-hpv.asp

    Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP):
    "Genital HPV is very common. Many estimates have placed the lifetime likelihood of getting genital HPV to be in the range of 75-90%."


    Center for Disease Control (CDC) 2004 Report to Congress:
    "A recent estimate suggests that 80% of women will have acquired genital HPV"

    American Journal of Medicine
    "nearly three in four Americans between the ages of 15 and 49 have been infected with genital HPV at some point in their life. "


    Rutgers University Health Services:
    "Over a typical college career approximately 60% of sexually active women will become infected. While it is assumed that a similar number of men are also infected, there are no good statistics as it is harder to test for HPV in men than women. The HPV virus is so common that it can almost be considered normal to have it."

  • Gtitian, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6by removing the cervix.
  • fixedcoma, on 10/10/2007, -5/+10Another reason why i haven't had sex in a few years!
  • schnikies79, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Just to be fair, not every female that contacts HPV develops cancer, it increases their risk. I know two females that had to have surgery to remove cancerous cells (both were still in college at the time), so it is a concern.
  • Buddhist, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Ouch, my pride.

    :[
  • MoClippa, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9Something more reliable then the daily mail please.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Teach me more!
  • vikingdiplomat, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5"they" have divorce rates? they being liberals, if not in so few words, i guess. well, do some research on divorce rates before you spout off ***** FUD: http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_dira.htm all you holier-than-thou ***** claim so much moral superiority so often and never get challenged about it. get over yourself.
  • Touchy610, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4For a lot of teen girls, although it depends on the state's law about parental contact, the doctor can recommend the vaccine to the girl without having to notify the parents. That's what my doctor did.
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