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Fighting cancer is a terribly expensive business. For example, the breakthrough drug Herceptin costs $50,000 a year for every breast cancer patient taking it. All too often, cancer patients have to fight for funding for these costly drugs.

How good it is, therefore, to have a cancer breakthrough of another kind -- a vaccine that will prevent many cases of cervical cancer from happening...

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While an effective vaccine for the prevention of cervical cancer could be very useful, this article gives no idea of the efficacy of the present vaccine and discusses nothing about potential side effects or how long it would be effective. There are approximately 1.5 million teenage girls in Canada. At $360 US, the cost to vaccinate all these women, would be $600 million for the vaccine alone. Is it worth it? There is no way to figure that out unless we know a lot more about the benefits and harms associated with this vaccine.

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