Sentences with phrase «prevent head and neck cancer»

The panel's recommendation is intended to prevent genital warts and anal cancers in males, and possibly prevent head and neck cancer (though the vaccine's effectiveness against head and neck cancers has not yet been proven).

The vaccine may also prevent head and neck cancer, which has been on the rise in recent years.

And although the vaccine has not been proven to prevent head and neck cancers, which can also be caused by HPV, the recent rise in cases of these cancers likely factored into the panel's reasoning for the recommendation, Schaffner said.

Experts encourage boys to be vaccinated against HPV, saying that the best way to prevent head and neck cancers, which are more common in men, is to get the HPV vaccine.

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«Given the lack of universal HPV immunization and the potential for the virus to evade the immune system even in individuals with detectable HPV in their blood, our findings could have far - reaching implications for identifying people at risk of developing HPV - related head and neck cancers and ultimately preventing them,» Miller said.