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Adverse reactions to cancer vaccine reported
MORE THAN 60 adverse reactions to the cervical cancer vaccine used in the State’s national immunisation programme have been reported so far to the Irish Medicines Board (IMB). To date about 45,000...
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Just 0.1% in ‘adverse reaction’ to vaccine
SIXTY-FOUR schoolgirls given a controversial cervical cancer vaccine have reported “adverse reactions” – less than 1% of those who received the immunisation. Doctors administering the Gardasil vaccine...
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Screening the key in cervical cancer drive
Launching the awareness campaign, IFPA medical director Dr Caitríona Henchion said: “Cervical cancer is unique because we know how to prevent it. Now that Ireland has a free cervical screening...
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Breakthrough in cervical cancer detection
RESEARCHERS believe they have found a way to identify women at risk of developing the worst form of cervical cancer, an illness which kills almost 100 Irish women every year. The joint Trinity College...
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Jacky Jones on HPV vaccination programme
Focusing on vaccination as the main way of preventing cervical cancer can have negative consequences. Young women may assume they are fully protected: they are not. The vaccine protects against only...
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One in 8 smear tests shows an abnormality
Majella Byrne, the acting director of the National Cancer Screening Service, said cervical cancer was an entirely preventable disease if the right systems were in place. And she said people could not...
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Older women not taking smear test
Women aged 45 and over are less likely to attend for regular smear tests than younger women, the Irish Family Planning Association has said. Though the immune system can clear the virus over time, the...
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Greater risk of cervical cancer in poor women
MEDICAL card holders are 50pc more likely to have an abnormal test result after undergoing cervical screening. The Dublin Well Woman Centre said this rate of abnormal smear test results – which need...
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Over 1,700 girls miss out on full cancer vaccine dose
HUNDREDS of schoolgirls may have missed out on the full protection of the vaccine against cervical cancer because they did not get all the doses. Dr Kevin Kelleher, head of health protection in the...
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Tackling cervical cancer head on
After just one year, Rwanda reported vaccinating more than 93% of its adolescent girls against the human papillomavirus (HPV) — by far the largest cause of cervical cancer. Vaccine coverage in the...
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