If you need urgent support, call 999 or go to your nearest A&E. To contact our Crisis Messenger (open 24/7) text THEMIX to 85258.
Anti-cancer jab for boys? Of course not!!!!
Former Member
Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24142695?ocid=socialflow_twitter_bbcnews
Surely more women should be speaking out against this if equality is what they call for?
Surely more women should be speaking out against this if equality is what they call for?
0
Comments
If everyone got it, yeah. But if it cost 20k to treat one person, and 20k to vaccinate 50 people but only 1 in 100 gets it then you're doubling expenditure
So someone's life isn't worth £350 just in case it's an "over-expenditure"?
I've no doubt it will be extended to men in due course, probably when the patent on the drug expires. But for now it is not perceived to be the best use of limited resources.
And resources are limited.
Seems so. I fall into the band of women too old for the jab but too young to start getting screened. If I'd been a few months younger I would have been vaccinated when they rolled out the 'catch up' phase. I've known girls fib or exaggerate symptoms a little to convince their doctor to send them for an early screen because they were worried.
Of course it's worth it. But the money just isn't there for all of these things.
It is there, just not put where it should be by those lining their own pockets.
Yet, we can afford to give someone a boob job and other surgery that they don't actually need?
It's going to cost more to treat the cancer too.
But what if out of 1000 men: (WARNING - COMPLETELY MADE UP FIGURES)
900 - protected because of their partners being vaccinated
99 - get the virus but it doesn't progress into cancer
1 - oral cancer
It's about numbers, cost, and limited resources.
It only costs more if it's very common, now the commonality of it may be rising, so it needs keeping an eye on. It's about a lot of variants though, and it does suck that these things need to be cost effective, even in a perfect system where no-one is lining their pockets, no-one is incompetent and everything is efficient.
I can't speak to boob jobs, because I don't know anyone who's had one, but my understanding is there are health issues involved. I'm not sure what you mean by "other surgery that they don't actually need" because I can't think of an example of that.
Funny thing is the reactions she got when she told people she'd had one.
Women said 'Has it helped ?'
Men say 'Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo' !