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Since the start of the academic year 2008, the little girls of 9 years and more will be able to be vaccinated free against the virus of the human papillome (VPH). The measure, that will cost 70 millions of dollars on four years, has for goal ” to warn the girls against the cancer of the collar of the uterus »1.

The minister of Health and the social Services, Philippe Couillard, made this announcement at the time of the disclosure of the struggle strategy against the cancer for the next five years.

The girls who will make themselves vaccinate against the VPH the next year will receive the GardasilMC vaccine, marketed by Merck. It is the Committee of immunization of Quebec that will see to the implantation of the vaccination program.

While vaccinating the little girls before they have their first sexual intercourse, Quebec wishes to warn them against the infections in the VPH. The vaccine offers an immunization against four stumps of the VPH, of which two are present in 70% of the cases of cancer of the collar of the uterus. It can flow out however from 20 years to 30 years before the cancer is audible. The VPH is as responsible for the apparition of genital warts.

The 70 millions of dollars that will be allocated to this program of vaccination will come from the federal government. In January 2007, this one put 300 millions of dollars at the disposal of the provinces anxious to create a program of vaccination against the VPH.

To Quebec, one values to 40 millions the cost of the implantation of the program, for the first year. One foresees to inject 10 millions then for the three following years.

The individual cost of the vaccine, that includes three injections, adjoin the 500 $THAT. But the number of injections rest to specify. ” One knew that the vaccine could be efficient from two doses:  will it be two or three doses that will be recommended? There is not anything settled of one point of medical view”, indicated the journalist of minister Philippe Couillard, Dominique Breton.

To Quebec, one estimates that 75 women die of the cancer of the collar of the uterus every year.

Strategies to fight against the cancer

Otherwise, Philippe Couillard announced a plan of struggle against the cancer, that will require an investment 75 millions of dollars from 20122.

Among about sixty orientations foreseen to this plan, one recovers the setting up of a Québecois register of the cancer, the backing of the interdisciplinary teams in oncology and in palliative care, as well as the increase of the number of nurses pivots.

The government hears to lead campaigns of sensitization also to make better know the programs of tracking, of which the mammography for the breast cancer and the test of Papanicolaou (Pap) for the cancer of the collar of the uterus.

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