Nanchang, August 8 (Reporter Wu Pengquan) HPV vaccination is one of the effective means to prevent cervical cancer. Will you not get cervical cancer after getting the HPV vaccine? Xie Tong, director of the Health Management Physical Examination Department of Jiangxi Provincial Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, answered this at the press conference of the Information Office of the Jiangxi Provincial Government on the 8th.
"High-risk HPV persistent infection is a major causative factor in cervical cancer, and HPV vaccination can effectively prevent cervical cancer." Xie Tong said that HPV vaccines are divided into bivalent, quadrivalent and nine-valent according to the number of preventable virus types.
She further introduced that the bivalent HPV vaccine can prevent high-risk HPV-16 and HPV-18 infections, and at least 70% of cervical cancers are related to these two types. The quadrivalent HPV vaccine adds low-risk HPV-6 and HPV-11 to the bivalent to prevent genital warts. The nine-valent HPV vaccine adds five high-risk types of HPV-5, HPV-31, HPV-33, HPV-45 and HPV-52 on the basis of the quadrivalent.
"None of the existing HPV vaccines cover all high-risk types of HPV." Xie Tong suggested that women who have been vaccinated against HPV and have sex still need to undergo regular cervical cancer screening.
How safe is the HPV vaccine? Xie Tong said that at present, domestic HPV vaccines, whether domestic or imported, have passed the approval of the State Food and Drug Administration, and safety related data in clinical trials must be provided before being approved for marketing, and the safety of vaccines is guaranteed.
On August 8, in the Jiulonghu Campus of Nanchang First Hospital, girls of appropriate age received the first dose of HPV vaccine for free. Photo by Liu Lixin
Jiangxi has listed free HPV vaccination for school-age girls as one of the 2023 livelihood facts in Jiangxi Province in 10, and free vaccination of domestic bivalent HPV vaccine for eligible junior and middle-grade girls in the province. On August 8, Jiangxi launched HPV vaccination, becoming the fifth province in the country to achieve free HPV vaccination for school-age girls.
"Between the ages of 9 and 14 is the best age to get the HPV vaccine, and early vaccination and early protection are especially important for the prevention of cervical cancer." Zhu Liebin, member of the party group and deputy director of the Jiangxi Provincial Health Commission, said that studies generally believe that vaccinating girls aged 9 to 14 years before sexual exposure with 2 doses of HPV vaccine provides the best protection and can effectively prevent cervical cancer due to HPV infection in adulthood. (End)