If women are being vaccinated against HPV.................?

Question

Where does this leave men? Shouldn't men be able to get the vaccine also? Especially since the news today about HPV causing throat cancer.

Answer 1

The main concern about HPV is the cervical cancer it can cause for women. Obviously this doesn't affect men because they don't have a cervix. It's estimated 10,000 women were diangosed with cervical cancer in the US alone last year. Of those 10,000 women, 4,000 of them will die from it.

Acordding to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention):
" We do not yet know if the vaccine is effective in boys or men. It is possible that vaccinating males will have health benefits for them by preventing genital warts and rare cancers, such as penile and anal cancer. It is also possible that vaccinating boys/men will have indirect health benefits for girls/women. Studies are now being done to find out if the vaccine works to prevent HPV infection and disease in males. When more information is available, this vaccine may be licensed and recommended for boys/men as well."
http://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/STDFact-HPV-vaccine.htm#hpvvac1

Answer 2

Thats a good question. We all know that the vaccine is designed for women, but men are the silent carriers of it(no offence). Men can be tested for it and I beleive that there should be a huge effort to test men. With the oral cancer thing, if you are with the same partner and you have it then you are more than likely both immune to the same strain, and if your body is fighting against the HPV than it would also do so orally. Oral cancer occurs 1 in 10,000 people in a year, and also has other contributers such as chewing tobacco, smoking and a few others. It is unlikely that you would get oral tumors from oral sex if you are with only one partner than you chances are rare. I am opposed to the HPV vaccine because that there isn't any real no long term studies done, The question of infertility has not been answered, its efficiancy has not been proven long term and a healthy immune system is all you need to protect yourself from all of the different strains, not just a few like the vaccine.

Answer 3

YES, Men should be vaccinated!
Some people don't quite get it. HPV causes other things besides cervical cancer! HPV can cause Genital Warts on both men and women and it now has been shown to cause throat cancer in MEN and women. THE VACCINE IS AGAINST HPV not just cervical cancer. Cervical cancer is caused by HPV.
If you are a man you can also get penile cancer from HPV. So that is why I think men should also get the vaccination. I think men should be more informed about what's going on here.

Answer 4

Men should be able to get the vaccine too. Although they cannot get cervical cancer themselves, they can still be a carrier of the HPV virus if tehy are not immunised against it. They are currenty running tests on using the vaccine on males, and so far the results are promising.

Answer 5

the vaccine is to help prevent cervical cancer. Men dont have cervix's thats why men dont get the vaccine.