The new research underscores the importance of vaccination for both sexes, experts say.

The new research underscores the importance of vaccination for both sexes, experts say.

The HPV vaccine is linked to a drastic reduction in head and neck cancers in adolescent boys and men, new research finds.

HPV, or human papillomavirus, is a sexually transmitted infection responsible for virtually all cases of cervical cancer. But the virus is also linked to a number of other cancers, including penile, anal and vaginal cancers.

It also accounts for the majority — up to 70% — of head and neck cancers, which affect the throat and mouth. Men are about twice as likely to develop these cancers than women, according to the National Cancer Institute.

The HPV vaccine, initially approved for adolescent girls, protects against strains of the virus linked to cervical cancer and has been found to significantly reduce rates of the cancer. But there’s growing evidence that the vaccine also protects against other HPV-related cancers.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    They’re always looking for alternate uses to medications.

    You’re arguing against medicines (given to treat conditions).

    What this article is about is a vaccine (given to avoid every having the conditions).

    • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      You’re arguing against medicines (given to treat conditions).

      Nope, I was making a statement about what pharma does these days, not necessarily this specific drug.

      I’m not anti medicine at all. If you follow what pharma does, you’d see I’m not wrong in my statement either.

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        Nope, I was making a statement about what pharma does these days, not necessarily this specific drug.

        You said this in your first post:

        I’m not saying that’s necessarily going on here, but it’s made me distrustful of statements like the title.

        You’re absolutely leaving the door open for your statements to apply to this specific vaccine. You’re not excluding the vaccine from your statements, and even calling into question the title of the post about the vaccine.

        I don’t know any other interpretation which would make a reader of your post think you’re talking about anything else except this vaccine in a thread about this vaccine.

        • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          That’s true, I should have phrased that better. To me, it’s like click bait. Articles are phrased a certain way and you know what you’re looking at.

          There have been a lot of new uses found for drugs because it costs pharma a lot to research and bring it through trials, etc. That leads to a lot of “This drug also helps with X” kind of titles.

          I’ll just leave commentary out of these kinds of threads in the future.