Why are girls under the age of 14 be HPV vaccines focusing on people?How to prevent cervical cancer?

On September 14th, a number of cities in Guangdong Province concentrated on a free HPV vaccine for girls in the first grade. The project is one of the people's livelihood in Guangdong in 2022, and it is expected that the beneficiaries will exceed 750,000 each year.

As the first province in the country to carry out free HPV vaccination in the province, why did Guangdong determine the first girl under 14 years of age as a key vaccination population? What is the popularity of cervical cancer in Guangdong? How to prevent it? In response, the reporter interviewed Xia Jianhong, director of the Women's Health Department of the Guangdong Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Guangdong Province.

Q:

Why do girls under the age of 14 be included in the HPV vaccine focusing on the HPV vaccine?

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This is related to the cause of cervical cancer. Cervical cancer is caused by continuous infection of high -risk human papilloma virus (HPV), and HPV is mainly transmitted through sexual life. This virus can easily stay on women's cervix and threaten women's health.

Inoculation of HPV vaccine can effectively stimulate the human immune system to produce antibodies and prevent HPV infection. Therefore, for children who have no sexual life, inoculation of HPV vaccine is equivalent to putting on a "helmet" in time and timely, so that after sexual life, it is not easy to infect HPV, and the protection effect is better.

It has been more than ten years since the launch of the HPV vaccine. A large number of evidence -based medical data also proves that after the vaccination of people under the age of 14 under the age of 14 in various countries in the world, the proportion of virus infection rate and the incidence of cervical cancer. Essence

Of course, this is not to say that people who have infected HPV and other aged people have no effect after vaccine. From the infection of HPV to developing into cervical cancer, it is often for ten or even twenty years, and we have enough time to intervene. It is also found from long -term practical data that after the vaccine has a certain immune ability, it can still effectively prevent the occurrence of cervical cancer.

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Is there a trend of younger cervical cancer in Guangdong?

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The trend of Guangdong is basically consistent with the country, and has a trend of increased incidence and younger. In 2017, the incidence of cervical cancer in our province was about 1482/100,000, which means that about 14 of 100,000 people suffered from cervical cancer and rural incidence was higher than cities. higher.

Since 2009, Guangdong has launched rural women's cervical cancer screening projects in the province. Since 2020, it has been expanded from rural women to urban and rural women. The disease was found earlier for timely treatment. The trend of youthfulness is also related to people's sexual life forward.

If you want to eliminate cervical cancer, the incidence must be reduced to less than 4/100,000. So we still have a difficult road to go.

Q:

What suggestions do you have for youth groups to prevent cervical cancer?

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Inoculation of HPV vaccine is a very good way to prevent. At the same time, we need to guide young people to develop healthy living habits. The current young people sleep late. Whether in society or in school, life may be irregular. There are insufficient sleep and high pressure. These will lead to a decline in immunity and easily infect HPV.

However, young people have a benefit. If you have health habits and healthy exercises, do not stay up late, it is easy to remove the HPV virus in the body. A study shows that the younger the younger people, the higher the ratio of HPV, and the removal rate within two years can reach 90%. As the age increases, the removal rate gradually decreases. After 40 years of age, the age increases by 1 year, and the removal rate may decrease by about 15%.

Therefore, although young people are prone to infection, if they have strong resistance, they can easily remove HPV viruses. We call on girls with age to actively vaccinate, and also call on everyone to develop good health habits to prevent cervical cancer from the source.

Source: South+Client

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