Some of these malignancies are sex-specific: cancers of the cervix, vagina and vulva in females; penile cancer in boys; both get HPV-associated genital warts. But both sexes get anal cancer linked ...

Vaccinating young boys and men will also likely protect women from infection and future cancer risks, as vaccinated young men will be less likely to pass on HPV to their female partners.

Vaccinating boys against HPV is crucial to prevent cancers and transmission, according to doctors at a health conclave.

The HPV vaccine is generally recommended for young girls and women But men too should get vaccinated especially when they ...

Approximately 90,000 boys would become eligible for the vaccine, and Taiwan would become the first nation in East Asia to ...

In July 2014, Phil Rech, then 59,was diagnosed with tonsil cancer. “I had got a lump in my neck. I had the tonsils out, and within the next few days, I was having radical neck d ...

(CBS/AP) A vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV) - a leading cause of cervical cancer - hasn't been popular for girls. For boys, it may be an even harder sell. A federal advisory panel on ...

When the HPV vaccine was first recommended for boys, health officials worried it would be an unusually hard sell. But a new report suggests that might not be the case. About 1 in 5 boys got at ...

India's HPV vaccine rollout could eliminate cervical cancer in the coming decade. Here's what parents, schools and doctors ...

Vaccinating teenage boys against the human papillomavirus (HPV) could save millions of health care dollars by preventing head and neck cancer, according to new research. Most know of HPV as the ...

the makers of the HPV vaccine Gardasil, to approve the vaccine for boys between the ages of nine and 15. Two professors of health decision science considered the cost of two public health ...

The vote of 13 to 0 (with one abstention) in favor of routine HPV vaccination of boys supersedes a 2009 vote by the panel recommending Gardasil be available to males ages 9 to 26 to prevent ...