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Reminder that HPV in men has a similar association to oral/anal cancer, and this vaccine (ideally the quadrivalent version) prevents it too [0]. HPV vaccine cam

• MrDresden 3y ago
  Many European nations have started vaccination of boys too.
• prepend 3y ago
  The incidence of these cancers is much lower than cervical cancer. I think a more practical benefit to boys is the prevention of many strains of general warts and general herpes.
  • saintfire 3y ago
    Males not contracting HPV stymies the transmission to unvaccinated females, if cervical cancer is the only concern for some reason.
  • groestl 3y ago
    5-year survival rate of throat cancer is 82%, 5-year survival rate of cervical cancer is 92%, and incidence of HPV-related throat cancers among men is higher than cervical cancer on it's own and rising (probably due to changes in sexual behavior) [0]. While total incidence of HPV related cancers is higher in women than in men and that's bad enough, there is not a lot of difference. It's a problem on its own. [0] https://www.cdc.gov/hpv/parents/cancer.html https://www.cdc.gov/hpv/parents/cancer.html
    • prepend 3y ago
      It’s the incidence that is important here. So while there’s higher survivability for cervical cancer, there are many more deaths. (At least until this vaccine) So people are concerned with the risk of having throat cancer more than the risk of death if they get it. And this seems reasonable. As I have a very high risk of death in many improbable situations and I care more about lower risk of death in very common situations. 10k cases of throat cancer in men each year in the US [0]. Although HPV-related cancer, oropharynx, is less than that and harder for me to find a good incident rate. Almost 14k cases of cervical cancer in women each year in the US [1] [0] https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/laryngeal-and-hypopharyngeal-cancer/about/key-statistics.html https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/laryngeal-and-hypopharyn... [1] https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/cervical-cancer/about/key-statistics.html https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/cervical-cancer/about/ke...
      • groestl 3y ago
        > It’s the incidence that is important here But that's my point: the incidence of cervical cancer in women and throat cancer in men is in the same order of magnitude, but the incidence of cervical cancer is stable or even declining due to screenings and HPV vaccination, while the incidence of back of the throat cancer in men is five fold higher than throat cancer in women already. And what's more, it is rising - also five fold over the past decade - due to (unprotected) oral sex becoming more common.
  • Teever 3y ago
    This vaccine does not prevent herpes.
    • prepend 3y ago
      Yes, you’re right, sorry. The vaccine prevents against up to 9 HPV, including many genital wart [0] strains. So I was wrong about herpes but my point was that it protects males against STIs and is just a handy vaccine to protect sexually active men against something they don’t want (some genital warts) and that seems like a greater motivator than reducing transmission to protect women from cervical cancer. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPV_vaccine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPV_vaccine