00:00Okay, the question is how do we, this one, I think it's really through education and it starts really not in the women, but I mean not on the woman at the stage alone, okay?
00:19It should start with elementary and high school. If you are able to educate the adolescents, which is actually the target for the primary vaccination of 9 to 15, then we're better off.
00:35Simply because they're more aware of how to contract and not to contract the HPV, they would be able to avoid risk-taking behavior that would make them better protected.
00:50And I think that's the best way to approach the issue.
00:53The second one is I think we need to do more in terms of education of our healthcare personnel only to make, also to make them, make this as a movement, okay?
01:09Cervical cancer is, compared to hepatitis, liver carcinoma, is the only preventable cancer so far.
01:19So we have a way to answer it.
01:24The first question actually was the 70 years, because if we do not do something now, it will take us another 70 to 100 years to fully eliminate cervical cancer.
01:35And that means that over this time, there are already 12 deaths every day for this one.
01:43If Emma just had to go ahead.
01:46That's a very good question, because actually, there even is a global movement now, led by a group based in the UK known as Nomad, or No One is an Island.
01:57Because precisely of the question that they pose, and they're part of those advocating for universal vaccination rather than just gender-based.
02:07But the reason for that, when it was explained, was that, as was mentioned, the incidence of cervical cancer, as well as the incidence of deaths from cervical cancer,
02:18is much higher than the combined incidence and deaths of HPV-related in venals.
02:25It should be in the anal, in the penis, in the area of your throat.
02:30Although women can also have those other HPV-related cancers, and not just the men.
02:37So that's the reason why there has been that focus as well, because they would like to see an integrated model.
02:45There has been so much emphasis on breast cancer in the past years, not enough on cervical cancer.
02:51But as mentioned earlier, it's now the second in women, dealing with loss of death.
02:57So what's actually being emphasized and encouraged now is an integrated model, where if the woman goes for breast check-up,
03:06they can also do cervical cancer check-up, and vice versa.
03:10But really, I mean, there will be a big help in saying that hindi lamang sakit ng babae ang cancer na galing sa HPV, ang lalaki rin.
03:19And we need men as well to understand this, because they become very powerful champions and spokespersons.
03:27So really, it's men and women working together to eliminate cervical cancer.
03:40Thank you, everybody.
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