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Boys should also get the HPV vaccine to protect themselves from oral and genital cancers

  • Written by Nham Tran, Laboratory Head and Senior Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney

The human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes cervical cancer in women, is also responsible for many cancers in men. It causes most cancers of the tonsils (known as oropharyngeal cancers), which are more common in men than women. HPV is also to blame for cancers of the anus, vulva, vagina and penis.

Oral cancers – which include those of the...

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