Vaccination Recommended against Common HPV Genotypes in India
HPV-16 and HPV-18 represent the human papillomavirus infections that affect most commonly the people living in India. Information released in the Basic Cancer Research Meeting at the American Association for Cancer Research Frontiers stated that vaccines against these two roots of the human papillomavirus may cut out 75% of the cases of patients suffering from cervical cancer in India.
It is estimated that in the India area there are 132,000 persons who get cervical cancer and 74,000 of the patients die annually.
As Raj Kumar Patro from the Department of Microbiology within the All India Institute of Medical Sciences located in New Delhi states India comprises one fourth of the worldwide total cases of cervical cancer and with regards to the ages of the ill patients, the country scores highest on the Globe. One problem is that the female patients suffer from cervical cancer in advanced stages and due to the tumors` development therapy is not effective.
In order to counteract the human papillomavirus, the researchers have to acquire a deeper knowledge about the genotype so as to develop an efficient vaccination system. The major problem in counteracting the human papillomavirus is the fact that this infection is migrating in the female body. As observations show, 100 human papillomavirus genotypes were identified in the female organisms and more than 40 of them were located in the anogenital cavity.
Raj Kumar Patro and his teammates studied 106 females that were suffering from cervical cancer in a metastatic form, 524 women that presented a biased cervix and women from the local community that were undergoing tests for the human papillomavirus.
Taking into consideration the group suffering from invasive cancer 83% of the cases comprised by it were in a strong relationship with the HPV-16 or HPV-18 roots. The second sample, the females with damaged cervixes, was discovered to host 15.5% cases suffered from the human paillomavirus.
The team of scientists found out that the two common roots of the human paillomavirus were linked to 65.7% of the aggressive cancer cases, 45.4% to the low-level illness and 34.3% to the cases suffering from normal stage cervical cancer. As a statistical conclusion for their study, the researchers stated that the propensity of the human paillomavirus in the amalgam of samples recorded 7%.
Compared to the moral and religious problems encountered in the United States region, Raj Kumar Patro stated that Indian population accepted very well the vaccination against the human papillomavirus. The problem for the women inhabiting India is that the country`s economy is not doing very good and acquiring the vaccine is not for everyone’s` pockets. As Raj Kumar Patro says the vaccination is very expensive for the low- and middle-income households and a huge number of women cannot afford it. Only the women who enjoy a higher income can afford to purchase the vaccine. But the doctoral student hopes that this type of vaccination would become generally available and for free in order to prevent the increasing number of human papillomavirus infections.
