| | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,912 Likes: 52 OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) |  OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,912 Likes: 52 | While both the vaccines have age "recommendations," their efficacy is much more significant if it is GIVEN previous to any sexual activity. No parent wants to hear their daughter or son is, to some extent, sexually active by 13, but that is what national surveys show. Every parent says " not my daughter/son" but when the kids get interviewed in a totally anonymous situation, they are bluntly honest, and that is where the numbers come from.
So in an average person, the FDA "GUESSES THAT BY 26-27 SOME SEXUAL ACTIVITY HAS TAKEN PLACE, BUT THERE HAVE NOT BEEN TONS OF MULTIPLE PARTNERS, AND THEREFORE EXPOSURE TO THE VIRUS ODDS ARE STILL LOW. AFTER THAT POINT, THEY FEEL THAT MOST PEOPLE HAVE HAD ENOGHT PARTNERS TO HAVE RUN INTO IT.
Sorry about the caps, lock was on and it's too late to retype it all.
Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
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Joined: Oct 2010 Posts: 12 | It seems like things are changing quickly for a better future for my boys. Thanks to all of you in the forefront of the fight against
this terrible disease. I will be Checking back with my insurance to see if there have been changes. It is so scary to see all the young people who write on this board. My brother is in his 40s but it seems more distressing to see posters in their 20s.
Sister to Randy (47, nonsmoker)
Base of tongue, scc, stage IV, lymph node involvement
Dx Nov 2009, started rad/ chemotherapy 12/09,PEG tube
Finished 02/10
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Joined: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,406 | Age 26-7 and the mighty FDA guesses that SOME sexual activity has taken place? Yikes, what century are those people living in?
David 2
SCC of occult origin 1/09 (age 55)| Stage III TXN1M0 | HPV 16+, non-smoker, moderate drinker | Modified radical neck dissection 3/09 | 31 days IMRT finished 6/09 | Hit 14 years all clear in 6/23 | Radiation Fibrosis Syndrome kicked in a few years after treatment and has been progressing since | Prostate cancer diagnosis 10/18
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