On the 23rd.
I fail to see how a thread making fun of jerks marginalizing breast cancer is “working” to help either victims or finding a cure. To those of you who think this is a fun game, if breast cancer was a part of your life in some way you would understand why it offends some of us as it does.
On the 23rd side? How many legs have you got???
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No, I just have to wrap it multiple times.
I did not know that.
Can boys even get the vaccination? At my pediatrician’s office, the shot is offered to girls. I have 2 boys and never thought about getting them vaccinated.
That’s an excellent question, and I don’t know the answer. I’ll go Google a bit and see if I can find out. I will be very surprised if boys actually can’t get the vaccination, as opposed to it simply not being offered or encouraged, but you never know.
The FDA says it’s OK to give boys and young men the vaccination. From here.
However:
I imagine that if you asked your doctor about the vaccine specifically as an oral cancer preventive, the doc might not support it. I do not believe a majority of the non-oral-surgeon/oncologist MDs out there are aware of the HPV-oral cancer connection yet.
Also, from here:
What this means for you is that you can probably get your boys vaccinated, but your insurance won’t pay for it.
It is interesting to note that the “published research” that “swayed” the ACIP seems to be this British study: “Cost effectiveness analysis of including boys in a human papillomavirus vaccination programme in the United States.” A Scientific American blog post explains that this study did not look at the cost effectiveness of vaccination alone:
(My bolding.) This is irritating. I think insurance shouldn’t get to skip paying for the vaccination itself just because a “massive health campaign” would not be cost-effective; no one’s asking them to pay for any massive damn nonexistent campaign. (sigh) The CDC says here that “The retail price of the vaccine is about … $375 for [the] full series.” (It takes three shots spread out over six months.) Gah! Of course, on the other hand, my oral cancer is costing my insurance company hundreds of thousands of dollars – I’ve been scared to add it all up, so it might have topped a million by now.
HPV: Gives you genital warts and cancer, and even hijacks discussions of the color of your underwear.
I suspect the awareness they were trying to raise is in the women that maybe that lump or whatever not-quite-right situation in their breast could be serious, could be cancer, should certainly be checked. I don’t think anyone’s looking for a cure with their bra colors, but rather to get women to pay attention to what’s in them. That said, I didn’t participate.
Isn’t most breast cancer discovered and reported by the women to their doctors? I’ve seen statistics, I believe that’s the case. I assumed it was self-awareness they were trying to promote and see no harm in it.
That’s my suspicion too. I read something related in an article just now
Before I read that my naïve expectation (as a man) was that a woman with a peanut-sized lump in a breast would of course run, not walk, to her doctor.