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HPV vaccine for boys 'will prevent thousands of cancers'
[UK] health officials say the HPV vaccine for 12 to 13-year-old boys, starting after the summer, will prevent 29,000 cancers in UK men in the next 40 years. The boys will be eligible from the start of the new school year, 11 years after girls were first vaccinated.
The jab protects against human papilloma virus, which causes many oral, throat and anal cancers.
[...] Why are boys now getting the jab? Because the programme to vaccinate teenage girls, and reduce cervical cancers, has proved very successful.
There has been a reduction in HPV infections, genital warts and pre-cancerous growths in teenage girls and young women since the vaccine was introduced. Other groups, like teenage boys, have seen benefits too because the virus is not being passed on to them. To protect boys even more, and reduce cancers of the anus, penis and head and neck in the future, health experts say they should be offered the HPV vaccine too.
Also at The Guardian and The Telegraph.
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Thursday July 11 2019, @04:55PM (2 children)
(Score: 2) by insanumingenium on Thursday July 11 2019, @10:01PM (1 child)
Got any documentation on that? Cause this is the first I have seen, from a quick search CDC seems to run through a healthy list of "no it isn't correlated with xxx or yyy" on their website.
I finally found someone claiming quite the opposite, but had found my way onto the website of an organization that if it won't be called anti-vax directly, they make it clear they don't hold any stock in DEC either just to be safe. NVIC's position seemed obvious to me as much as they appear to me to be trying to claim impartiality.
Though even if I took their "fact sheet" as gospel, I suspect vaccination would still be my first choice. HPV is astonishingly common, cancer sucks, the vaccine appears effective, the vaccine did pass trials and continues to be the center of active study, if there are any serious side effects they are hiding down in the weeds statistically (or take 10+ years to develop and we don't have a clue yet, which would be a surprise, but not impossible). All vaccines have side effects, and generally they are incredibly minor, but even the more extreme cases don't lend them to being a worse risk than ignoring them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @07:36AM
You will NEVER get documentation from buddy on that, except maybe some youtube videos of some guy complaining, or of fearful music with text shown frame by frame.
And a whole lot of comments such as "YES!"