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Old 10-26-2011, 01:44 PM   #1
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Default HPV for boys too.
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More shots may be in store for young men at the doctor's office, as an expert panel said Tuesday they should receive routine vaccination against HPV.
The Centers for Disease Control's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices believes that vaccinating males will slow the sexually transmitted virus' spread to females - and prevent rare forms of cancer later in life.
The CDC panel's recommendations are usually adopted by federal health officials, who, in turn, request that doctors and patients around the nation follow their lead.
"Today is another milestone in the nation's battle against cancer," Dr. Anne Schuchat, a CDC administrator, told The Associated Press.
If the recommendation is adopted, boys will get the human papillomavirus, or HPV, vaccine when they are 11 or 12, along with other common immunizations.
The committee recommended, however, that any male 13 to 21 years of age receive the vaccination.
The CDC may be facing an uphill battle in convincing young men - and their doctors - that they need the vaccine.
While HPV does cause most of the cervical cancer in women, it's mostly harmless for men, though a minority infected with HPV develop anal cancer.



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle...#ixzz1btYr0fzc
Don't let your son get ass cancer. Have him get this vaccine.
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