#50209 04-26-2007 11:34 AM | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 65 OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 65 | The stupidity of their remarks is unbelievable. First, HPV is the MOST COMMON sexually transmitted communicable disease in the US, and the CDC says that 80% of the US population will have some form of it in their lifetimes. Second, no one is being subjected to experimentation here, this is an FDA approved vaccine that went through extensive trials for years before approval. These two guys definately come from the shallow end of the gene pool...
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. | | |
#50210 04-26-2007 03:11 PM | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 42 Contributing Member (25+ posts) | Contributing Member (25+ posts) Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 42 | Dr. Maura Gillison made two amazing remarks last weekend at the Head and Neck Cancer Patient Education Day at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore with reference to the HPV Vaccine. It is by far the safest vaccine that probably has ever been developed and the greatest vaccine developed in medical history. This comes from a physican known around the world for her work with oral cancer and HPV. Marty
MARTY-Caregiver to husband (non-smoker/non-drinker)Dx 04/06 SCC Stage IV left tonsil-3 lymph nodes,HPV+,Tx 35xIMRT,35xcisplatin/tarceva,neck dissection 11/06, beginning HPV vaccine JHopkins 04/07.
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#50211 04-27-2007 03:46 AM | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8,311 Senior Patient Advocate Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | OP Senior Patient Advocate Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8,311 | I found this yesterday in my quest to understand why politically motivated types are usually from the low end of the gene pool as Brian so eloquently put it and I guess we're not the first generation to realize that. Please read.
Political Truisms
>> Suppose we were idiots...Then suppose we were members of >> Congress....But then I repeat myself. >> -Mark Twain >> >> I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is >> like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the >> handle. >> -Winston Churchill >> >> A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the >> support of Paul. >> -George Bernard Shaw >> >> Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting >> on what to have for dinner. >> -James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994) >> >> Foreign aid must be defined as a transfer of money from poor people >> in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. >> -Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown >> University >> >> Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car >> keys to teenage boys. >> -P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian >> >> Government's view..... >> >> If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it can't >> move, subsidize it. >> -Ronald Reagan (1986) >> >> I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. >> -Will Rogers >> >> Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean >> politics won't take an interest in you! >> -Pericles (430 B.C.) >> >> No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in >> session. >> -Mark Twain (1866) >> >> Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it. >> -Unknown >> >> The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a healthy >> appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. >> -Ronald Reagan >> >> The inherent "vice" of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the >> blessings. >> The inherent "blessing" of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. >> -Winston Churchill >> >> The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the >> taxidermist leaves the skin. >> -Mark Twain >> >> The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to >> fill the world with fools. >> -Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903) >> >> There is no distinctly Native American criminal class....save Congress. >> -Mark Twain >> >> What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. >> -Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995) >> >> A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong >> enough to take everything you have. >> -Thomas Jefferson (1771)
I assume that finding the cure for political mentality is as difficult as finding the cure to cancer. I feel like a worm in a fire ant hill.
David
Age 58 at Dx, HPV16+ SCC, Stage IV BOT+2 nodes, non smoker, casual drinker, exercise nut, Cisplatin x 3 & concurrent IMRT x 35,(70 Gy), no surgery, no Peg, Tx at Moffitt over Aug 06. Jun 07, back to riding my bike 100 miles a wk. Now doing 12 Spin classes and 60 outdoor miles per wk. Nov 13 completed Hilly Century ride for Cancer, 104 miles, 1st Place in my age group. Apr 2014 & 15, Spun for 9 straight hrs to raise $$ for YMCA's Livestrong Program. Certified Spin Instructor Jun 2014.
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