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the HPV vaccine is so important for both men and women.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/uhn-pfm110309.php
This is great news for people who already have tonsil cancer. They discovered (I wrote about it before) that a significant number of people with tonsil cancer had HPV-16 in their cancer. Now, they've discovered that cancer caused by HPV-16 responds really well to radiation WITHOUT THE NEED FOR CHEMOTHERAPY.
This greatly improves the quality of life for patients with tonsil cancer.
But if they had the vaccine, they might never have had to go through this at all.
Because smoking rates are declining, HPV as the cause of head and throat cancer is rising. But it's also rising because of the increase in popularity of oral sex. Pretty soon, with these two factors, HPV will be the leading cause of oral cancers in the US.
Because oral cancers are not screened as rigorously as cervical cancer is, the mortality rate for oral cancer is much higher due to not catching it as early. This goes for men and women.
But, with the vaccine, we could reduce the numbers of head and throat cancers, along with a decline in smoking, to a very small number of people.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/uhn-pfm110309.php
This is great news for people who already have tonsil cancer. They discovered (I wrote about it before) that a significant number of people with tonsil cancer had HPV-16 in their cancer. Now, they've discovered that cancer caused by HPV-16 responds really well to radiation WITHOUT THE NEED FOR CHEMOTHERAPY.
This greatly improves the quality of life for patients with tonsil cancer.
But if they had the vaccine, they might never have had to go through this at all.
Because smoking rates are declining, HPV as the cause of head and throat cancer is rising. But it's also rising because of the increase in popularity of oral sex. Pretty soon, with these two factors, HPV will be the leading cause of oral cancers in the US.
Because oral cancers are not screened as rigorously as cervical cancer is, the mortality rate for oral cancer is much higher due to not catching it as early. This goes for men and women.
But, with the vaccine, we could reduce the numbers of head and throat cancers, along with a decline in smoking, to a very small number of people.
