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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.
bruh
Within "cervical cancer" theres are many types, in case you didn't know, bruh.
People who get "lung cancer" can get various forms. The article isn't taking about eliminating cervical cancer entirely, not even the one caused by HPV.
Which if you hadnt read, the article is arguing these deaths are mostly preventable in poorer countries as HPV has had a long awareness (and effective) campaign already, it's not even primarily about cancer. The headline sucks.