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Posted: 24 March 2009 at 5:25pm | IP Logged

For those of you with daughters I was wondering what your thoughts are on the new Cervical Cancer Vaccination avaliable. Will you be letting your daughter have it when she reaches 12 or 13 (not sure what the age is exactly for it).

I know when it was first launched a lot of parents were against the idea, but since the Jade Goody cancer story has covered the press in recent weeks more and more parents are changing their minds.

There is an old news article I found here which explains more about the Jab for those who want more info.

I was just curious if you had thought about this and if you had changed you mind in light of Jade Goodys public battle with cervical cancer?

Posted: 24 March 2009 at 8:29pm | IP Logged

I was chatting to my gp about this a couple of months ago, and dd will definitely be getting them, they will be given at 13-14 yrs of age, but they are starting with the older ones and rolling it out through the schools. 

There is however a catch!  If your child is sexually active this won't necessarily work.  It is based on the assumption that the girl is a virgin, as if they have had sex they may have already been exposed!  And that is what the doctor actually told me.  He also said it isn't going through the doctors, it's going from the health boards directly into the schools!