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TALK TO YOUR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL

ABOUT HPV AND GARDASIL®

One of your best sources of information about HPV and GARDASIL® is your healthcare professional. Be sure to ask any questions you have. You may want to consider taking this list of questions about HPV and GARDASIL® with you. These questions can be a great way to get the conversation started.

If you are a parent and want questions especially for your daughter’s healthcare professional, you can find them here.

Questions to

ASK YOUR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL:


  1. If I’m not sexually active yet, why should I get vaccinated now, not later?
  2. If I’m already sexually active, should I still get vaccinated?
  3. If I get vaccinated, how likely is it that I could still get cervical cancer or genital warts?
  4. How does GARDASIL® work? Could I get HPV or any other diseases from the vaccine?
  5. What are the side effects of GARDASIL®?
  6. Could GARDASIL® affect any other medications I’m currently taking?
  7. Before I get vaccinated, are there any other tests you have to do?

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT GARDASIL®

GARDASIL® is a vaccine indicated in girls and women 9-26 years of age, for the prevention of infection caused by HPV types 6, 11, 16, and 18 and the following diseases associated with these types: cervical cancer, abnormal and precancerous cervical cells, vaginal and vulvar cancers, abnormal and precancerous vaginal and vulvar cells, and genital warts. 

GARDASIL® helps prevent these diseases but it does not treat them. And just like all vaccines, GARDASIL® may not fully protect everyone who gets it. GARDASIL® does not protect against all types of HPV. Duration of protection over the long term has not been established. Vaccination with GARDASIL® is not recommended during pregnancy.

Like all vaccines, GARDASIL® may cause some side effects. GARDASIL® has been shown to be generally well tolerated in adults and children as young as 9 years old. The most commonly reported side effects in girls and women included pain, swelling, itching, bruising and redness where the shot was given. Fever, nausea, dizziness, headache and vomiting were also reported. Allergic reactions may occur.

Even if you get vaccinated with GARDASIL®, it is still important to continue having regular Pap tests.

Only a healthcare professional can decide if GARDASIL® is right for you or your daughter.

Read the Patient Product Information or the Prescribing InformationTo retrieve this information you will be re-directed to a page within our main Merck Frosst Website which contains Product Monographs, Prescribing Information, Product Information and Consumer Information approved by Health Canada. Click here to go to the Gardasil® page on MerckFrosst.com for more information.



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