In recent years, friends have been chatting about the nine -, four – and bivalent cervical cancer vaccines.
With the popularity of domestic HPV vaccine, people are becoming more and more aware of the prevention of cervical cancer, more and more attention to their own health.
But there’s still a lot of misunderstanding about HPV, and a lot of young women don’t know much about HPV, so today we’re here to answer that question.
What exactly is HPV?
HPV, the human papillomavirus, is a group of more than 150 types of viruses, about 40 of which infect human reproductive organs and are the main cause of cervical cancer.
The virus is transmitted sexually and by direct contact with the skin. In severe cases, it can lead to precancerous lesions and cancers of the cervix, vagina, vulva and anus.
What are the HPV vaccines?
What is the vaccine that suits oneself vaccinal age?
The recommended age for bivalent vaccine for HPV16 and hPV18 is 9 ~ 45 years old. 1 dose is recommended for 0, 1 dose for 1 month and 3 doses for 6 months.
The recommended ages for quadrivalent vaccines for HPV6, 11, 16 and 18 are 20 to 45 years old, and 1 dose is recommended for 0, 2 and 6 months respectively, with a total of 3 doses.
(1 month between first and second doses, at least 3 months between second and third doses, 3 doses should be completed within 1 year)
The recommended ages for nine-valent vaccines for HPV6, 11, 16, 18, 31, 33, 45, 52 and 58 are 16 to 26 years old, and 3 doses should be given according to the immunization schedule of 0, 2 and 6 months.
(1 month between first and second doses, at least 3 months between second and third doses, 3 doses should be completed within 1 year)
But does HPV infection necessarily lead to cervical cancer?
This is not necessarily the case. Only a long and persistent high risk HPV infection can lead to cervical cancer.
A short period of HPV infection does not lead to cervical cancer.
In fact, sometimes you don’t even know that you are infected with HPV. As long as you keep good sleep and exercise, improve your immunity, it is very likely that HPV will gradually move away from you.
Unfortunately infected HPV, will it affect pregnancy?
As long as have done professional examination, TCT index is normal, and below the circumstance that the cell does not have evil change, it is to do not affect to be pregnant to give birth to a baby completely!
How do you prevent HPV?
The answer is definitely vaccine, vaccine is currently the most effective way to prevent HPV, of course, it does not mean that the injection of the vaccine can be completely carefree, you still want to keep a healthy rest, but the vaccine can effectively reduce the chance of contracting HPV!
So how effective is the HPV vaccine?
Due to the long duration of cervical cancer, the main focus of HPV vaccine clinical research is HPV infection and CIN.
At present, three KINDS of HPV vaccines have significant preventive effect on carcinogenic HPV infection and related diseases, including CIN2, intraepithelial neoplasia of vagina, vulva and anus, and stable immunogenicity after inoculation.
It is estimated that bivalent and quadrivalent vaccines reduce CIN2 and CIN3 by 62.1% and 58.6%, respectively, and reduce squamous cell carcinoma by 70.5% and 64.8%.
Compared with the bivalent vaccine, the quadrivalent vaccine provides much greater cross-protection against non-vaccine HPV types, which may significantly improve overall protection since non-vaccine HPV types cause about 30% of cervical cancer.
Quadrivalent and bivalent vaccines potentially prevent about 70% of invasive cervical cancer.
The nine-valent HPV vaccine can prevent another 20% of invasive cervical cancer.
It is estimated that the number of cases with the nine-valent HPV vaccine has been reduced by 9.3% and 12.5%, respectively, compared with the quadrivalent and bivalent HPV vaccines, and the number of cases of squamous cell cancer has been reduced by 4.8% and 6.6%, respectively, for high-grade intracervical neoplasia (CIN2 and CIN3).
There is no clinical efficacy data to support the cross-protection of nine-valent HPV vaccines.