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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (5 Mar 2015)

John Crown: ...budget as opposed to this year's one, it helps one, at a time of great constraints in a health service, to meet that panic-stricken budgetary deadline that one has to meet the next time. Gardasil, the cervical cancer vaccine, was originally unearthed before the financial meltdown and a correct decision was made to approve it. A decision was then made, when we really got into the real...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Apr 2014)

John Crown: ...- but they cannot provide it because of cost. I did the arithmetic and there is an exact, neat correlation between what we paid every year to bail out Anglo Irish Bank and what it would cost to eradicate cervical cancer for one year in India.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Gardasil Vaccine (HPV) and Meningococcal Group B Vaccine: Discussion (20 Dec 2012)

John Crown: ...the level of coverage of the HPV vaccine. The currently used vaccine is Gardasil, which prevents four subtypes of HPV, including two subtypes which are incriminated in the great majority of viral cervical cancers and virtually all cases of genital warts. The alternative product only covers the two cervical cancer-causing subtypes. That product did not win the bidding competition in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Gardasil Vaccine (HPV) and Meningococcal Group B Vaccine: Discussion (20 Dec 2012)

John Crown: ...time as possible on this issue. It is widely accepted that no jurisdiction in the world has discontinued the vaccine programme and no leading group of experts has stated we should stop vaccinating for cervical cancer. Furthermore, there are no proven cases - there are temporarily associated cases - of any deaths or serious life threatening injuries from this vaccine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Gardasil Vaccine (HPV) and Meningococcal Group B Vaccine: Discussion (20 Dec 2012)

John Crown: I will try to contain myself. Uniquely, I am probably the only person in this room who has ever had to tell somebody that she had cervical cancer and might die from it or might never have children again as a result of treatment. Uniquely in this room, I have heard people with tear-streaked eyes question whether they had this disease because they were infected with the virus. I would do all...

Seanad: Access to Cancer Treatment Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Jul 2012)

John Crown: ...drugs with marginal benefit become effective. The alternative is what happened with two high profile drugs in recent years. The HPV vaccine, given to young girls to prevent them from getting cervical cancer, was a phenomenal and extraordinary breakthrough and rightly won the Nobel Prize for Dr. Harald zur Hausen. It could effectively eliminate this disease by reducing it by 80% to 90%...