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sexual contact is one way of getting cervical cancer, but not the only way. it can also be caused by smoking, oral contraceptives, etc. the law requiring gardisil is probably because one of the causes of the cancer is early sexual contact and multiple partners. it can be contracted by the HPV virus which is sexually transmitted.

Over 94% of cervical cancers are caused by HPV. Human Papilloma Virus. There are four types of HPV that are responsible for this. HPV is a sexually transmitted disiese, caused by having too many partners. The Ph levels brought on by multiple partners to your cervix is what causes cell abnormalty. You can still get cervical cancer while a virgin, but the percentages of actual cases are extremely low, about less than 4%. Those cases are usually metastatic (transfered) from ovarian or uterine cancers. Though, I believe in vaccinating to keep ones self protected, the easiest way to be protected from HPV is safe sex, using a condom. If you believe you are going to be sexually active, and not use protection, then the vaccine is the way to go. But ONLY in the case of HPV. Even with the Guardasil vaccine, you can still contract an STD or get pregnant. So your best bet around all of these is to use a condom every time.

most will say that cervical cancer is caused by the HPV virus, but this is a medical myth. HPV has never been proven to cause cervical cancer. Mind you that HPV (human pappilomavirus) usually clears up on it’s own, so if you want to test on HPV, it’s quite useless and so is getting the gardasil vaccine, which in itself may have very dangerous side effects(including death)

“Cervical Cancer Virtually 100% Avoidable

Cervical cancer is well documented to be caused by an infection acquired through sexual contact. So it is behaviorally avoidable. Many conservatives oppose making this vaccine mandatory, citing fears that it could send a subtle message condoning sexual activity before marriage.

Also, a New England Journal of Medicine study found the use of condoms reduces the incidence of HPV by 70 percent. By comparison, Gardasil counteracts four varieties of HPV that cause 70 percent of the cases of cervical cancer and 90 percent of genital warts.

According to the CDC, HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease in America (more than 6 million women contract it annually), yet the immune systems of many women are strong enough to clear up these infections on their own.

Cervical Cancer Review

Cervical cancer, arising in the lining of the cervix, affects about 9,700 women in the United States each year. About 3,700 die. Worldwide, a half million get the disease and 233,000 die.

Back in the 1970s, herpes simplex virus (HSV) was proposed as the sexually transmitted cause of cervical cancer, based mostly on population studies that showed a correlation of the disease with HSV DNA. That approach shifted to HPV in the 1980s, and over the years population studies set the pace for the now well-accepted view that cervical cancer is strongly related to the transmission of HPV.

This is a group of more than 100 viruses, about 30 of which are said to be linked to cervical cancer. Of these 30 or so, HPV-16 is said to be found in 50 percent of cervical cancers. HPV-18 accounts for another 20 percent.

In addition to the population studies that link HPV to cervical cancer, there is, for example, research showing that HPV viral DNA can be found integrated in the genetic structure of cervical cancers.

Back in 1992, however, a question was raised about the dominant and increasingly entrenched theory that HPV causes cervical cancer. It came from Peter Duesberg and Jody Schwartz, molecular biologists at the University of California at Berkeley.

Among the various issues they raised about the acceptance of HPV as the cause of cervical cancer was their fundamental concern that there was a lack of consistent HPV DNA sequences and consistent HPV gene expression in tumors that were HPV-positive. They instead suggested that “rare spontaneous or chemically induced chromosome abnormalities which are consistently observed in both HPV and HSV DNA-negative and positive cervical cancers induce cervical cancer.”

In short, Duesberg and Schwartz were pointing to the possibility that “carcinogens may be primary inducers of abnormal cell proliferation rather than HPV or HSV.” And here’s the key point: “Since proliferating cells [cancer cells dividing wildly] would be more susceptible to infection than resting cells, the viruses would just be indicators rather than causes of abnormal proliferation.”

The concept they raised back in 1992 is still relevant today, only science has gone on to assume that causation of cervical cancer has been well established.

Even the National Cancer Institute (NCI) says that “direct” causation has not been demonstrated; however, the NCI and just about everyone else works with the principle that it has been established. Lip service is paid to other possible factors that may be involved in cervical cancer such as environmental conditions, including smoking. Even dietary factors — particularly low levels of vitamin A and folate — have been suggested as associated with a risk for cervical cancer.

But once a vaccine to prevent HPV infection is raised as a weapon to prevent cervical cancer, then it’s pretty clear that the medical establishment has gone all the way in accepting a theory.”