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"a cancer" is not one thing, so you can tell the headline is full of shit already, even within the same organs the cancers are different.
This is about cervical cancer, which we can help avoid by avoiding things known to cause it, like preventing HPV with HPV vaccines. This isn't eliminating cancer in any way, at best preventing it
Wrong.
Note the headline does not claim a cure to a cancer because it is not, instead it eliminates the vector from which the cancer occurs.
When enough people are vaccinated against HPV, the virus cannot spread. The cancers that are caused by HPV cease to exist.
Eventually, the vaccine will not be required.
Lmao, HPV is not the only way you get cervical cancer. "Elimination of a cancer" is just not true. Maybe one specific type of cervical cancer.
It's like saying we can cure colon cancer if we just stopped eating at McDonald's. It's simply not true.
I didn't use the word "cure" in my comment.
Edit: Lmao was for the dwight level "Wrong" like youre unidan or something.
Then you do understand that this will element all the HPV variants. Which isn't nothing. 95% of all cervical cancers.
You are trying to sound smart by being a pedantic contrarian.
You broke the code lol.
95% is the low estimate, the WHO says it's 99%.
Edit: I am wrong, the WHO also says 95%. I don’t know why I thought they said 99%. Regardless, almost everyone says 95% or more.
I do understand that this helps eliminate some of the variants. That's not what the headline is saying.
Why not make it an article about HPV that would help with cervical cancer instead of a cancer article about HPV? Because clicks. It still wouldn't eliminate 94, or 99% of cervical cancers, only HPV ones.. Eliminate HPV doesn't sound as good, we can't even eliminate measles.
It says 94% of cancers occur in those countries. That's a far cry from what youre implying.
Edit: I wouldn't call bitching about cancer titles being blown of out proportion "contrarian" either