Reply #5: A close friend went through that procedure due to in-situ cancer.

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And she works at a cancer hospital and had plenty of colleagues to discuss this with. Given the information which is available thus far, she didn't encourage her daughter to get the vaccine.

Yearly pap smears are the best way to screen and are still as necessary as they ever were. One danger of the Gardasil vaccine is that some women may have a false sense of security and not get their annual pap smear. The vaccine only protects against a couple of the 15 or more types that could cause cancer.