About 6,000 women die each year in Romania from cervical cancer.
About 6,000 women die each year in Romania from cervical cancer.
Under these conditions, the director of the Matei Balş Institute, university professor Adrian Streinu Cercel, supports vaccination against the HPV virus, considering that, in this way, thousands of lives could be saved:
Adrian Streinu Cercel: We started with a two-valence vaccine, only for the 16th and 18th, and, at the moment, we have arrived at a vaccine with 9 valences, which can be done without a doubt. Any sexually active woman should, in my opinion, be vaccinated because …
Publisher: Even at 45?
Adrian Streinu Cercel: Even at the age of 45, because it is believed, first of all, that between the ages of 18-20 over 60% of women contract an HPV infection, and by the age of 45 over 80% of women contract a HPV infection. After all, the distance from here to cervical cancer is no longer very long.
The statement was issued during the “Night Service” program at the RRA.
