00:00The HPV-related pathologies, particularly the uterine cervix tumor, but also other cancers,
00:11are a pathology that every year in Italy affects a large number of people.
00:17And above all, there are 2,500 uterine cervix tumors in women,
00:23which are tumors that act at an early age,
00:26so they conquer young subjects with a high mortality rate.
00:29What is important is that we have 2 very effective tools
00:34to, how to say, counteract the spread of the virus and therefore the insurgency of these diseases.
00:39First of all, vaccination.
00:41In Italy, vaccination is actively offered to all girls and boys starting from the age of 10.
00:52And this early immunization is the best strategy,
00:56because this protection, which is obtained with only 2 injections at this early stage,
01:01allows to have a future life free from possible negative consequences, especially cancer.
01:09Another important tool is screening, the uterine cervix screening,
01:13aimed at women in Italy from the age of 25.
01:17It is absolutely important that all women know how important this tool is
01:22to prevent the spread of the disease through early and reasonable interventions.
01:28Screening is also an opportunity to recover vaccination in subjects
01:32who did not do it when they had to do it as teenagers,
01:36because even if the vaccination was late, that is, even after 18, 20 years,
01:43at an older age, it still has a protective effect,
01:47and in the pathology also in relation to the skin, and above all it protects from the tumor.
01:51So it is absolutely important that these 2 tools,
01:54which the health service offers actively to the whole population,
01:58are adequately used by the population.
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