The world’s first ovarian cancer vaccine could wipe the disease out, researchers have said.
OvarianVax is a vaccine that teaches the immune system to recognise and attack the earliest stages of ovarian cancer.
It’s being developed by scientists at the University of Oxford.
The hope is that women could receive the jab preventatively on the NHS with the goal of eradicating the disease.
Experts have suggested it could work in a similar way to the human papillomavirus (HPV) jab, which is on track to stamp out cervical cancer.
This is great news. Yet, sadly, I am drawn to wondering who will complain about this the loudest. Will it be misogynists who say “they’re not helping men with their cancer”, or anti-vaxxers saying “this vaccine will actually CAUSE cancer”?
What about people who are both misogynist and anti-vaccine?
Well at least ovarian cancer isn’t airborne and contagious like covid. So antivaxxers can avoid it all they want, it’s their choice if they want to die from a disease that they could’ve prevented.
They don’t get a vaccine. More for the sane people.
It’s a good thing we invented this straw person to have this whole discussion artificially when literally no one else was bringing it up. If we can’t find any monsters I guess we’ll invent them and do it anyway. 🙄
So, neither misogynists nor anti-vaxxers exist?
I can find you evidence of men complaining about free period products. I am certain there will be men complaining that female cancers are getting cures, and not male ones.
Oh you sweet summer child. I wish I could live in your brain.
Yet another who could have just shut the fuck up. Alas.
You seem to be having a bad day. Maybe taking it out on strangers will help?
They undoubtedly exist, but we shouldn’t worry about what some troglodytic moron has to say about the issue.
Fuck em, essentially. Rather have cancer than a vaccine, that’s their choice. It’s not until it’s a required vaccine that it makes much difference.
Yes, that’s the attitude that people have as they make the world worse. It’s not the best attitude.
No it isn’t. People have a basic level of accountability. If someone doesn’t want a life saving vaccine because they’re too ignorant to understand the science behind our bodies, no amount of oration will convince them otherwise. So yeah. Fuck em.
And just what are you suppose to do with the people who are intentionally holding everything back?
If you believe in not hurting people, you don’t hurt people.
$10 says Alex Jones and his troglodyte cult following are gonna have a field day 😮💨
Alex is a little busy losing everything he owns right now.
He’ll multitask
Sure. He’ll also drink large quantities of liquor and cry.
Absolutely.
Yeah, I knew it. Here come the sad sacks with the useless “this is good news, but…”
I’m an academic working to analyse hate speech, with a particular focus on online misogyny. As bigotry is illogical, common features of communications of that hatred is stuff that is wholly made up. This include the idea that men are being short-changed by a medical industry which prioritise female health. This is factually untrue, in terms of gender differences in health outcomes.
If knowing about the truth makes me a ‘sad sack’, fine. Maybe being correct and ‘sad’ is more important than being incorrect yet happy.
Ok, good point. Yet, sadly, children die of cancer.