Why do boys need to get the HPV vaccine between 9 and 15?
Why do boys need to get the HPV vaccine between 9 and 15? With this dose, boys are protected and cannot transfer the virus from partner to partner. Together with vaccinated girls, they can build a herd immunity of sorts in the community, advises Dr Sarika Gupta, Consultant, Gynecologic Oncology and Robotic Gynaecology, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi Most of us think that the human papilloma virus (HPV), an easily sexually transmitted virus, causes only cervical cancer in women. What’s not talked about as much is that it leads to a variety of cancers in men, too, some of which are spiralling. According to a Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre newsletter of 2021, HPV led to a five-fold increase of head and neck cancers in young men in the US from 2001 to 2017, the data being formally released at the 2021 annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology. In fact, oncologists at Sloan Kettering found that cases of head and neck cancer were being reported by people i