HPV vaccination protects not only against cervical cancer in women but also other HPV-related cancers in men and women, most notably head and neck cancer in men, new data showed.
The analysis, featured at a May 23 press briefing ahead of the June 1 presentation at the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2024 annual meeting, notably found that men who received the HPV vaccine had a 56% lower risk for head and neck cancer s.
Using the US TriNetX database, lead investigator Jefferson DeKloe, BS, a research fellow with Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, and colleagues created a matched cohort of 760,540 HPV-vaccinated and unvaccinated men and 945,999 HPV-vaccinated and unvaccinated women.< .001) and a 56% lower risk for head and neck cancers than unvaccinated men. There were not enough cases of anal and penile cancers for analysis.< .
"HPV vaccination is cancer prevention," Glenn Hanna, MD, with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, said in an ASCO statement.National Cancer Institute "The goal," Schuchter said at the briefing,"is that younger girls and young boys get vaccinated to prevent development of HPV infection, and that should decrease the risk of cancer, which is what we've seen."
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