HPV Vaccine Protects Against Anal HPV Infection Which Can Lead To Anal Cancer

[HuckleB]

http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com/news-insider-news.asp?itemId=1954

"The bivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine (Cervarix, GlaxoSmithKline), used in the routine vaccination of girls against cervical cancer, also protects against HPV infection that can lead to anal cancer.

Effects were particularly noted when the vaccine was given to women before exposure to the virus. The findings suggest that this vaccine might prevent a large proportion of anal cancers in women.

Although anal cancers remain rare in the general population, in recent decades rates have nearly doubled in many countries, including the USA and several European countries. Women have twice the incidence of anal cancer compared to men.

A large proportion of anal cancers are caused by HPV, with high-risk types HPV 16 and HPV 18 responsible for 75–80% of anal cancers.

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What can I say? I like good news.



:patriot:

[TheWraith]

1. Celebration time! Anal sex for everyone! nt

[HuckleB]

2. I do love the predictable responses.

:rofl: :boring:

[TheWraith]

5. You can't blame me for wanting to party. nt

[kestrel91316]

3. And if I'm not mistaken, vaccines against at least some animal papillomaviruses

are effective against severe disease even if given AFTER infection. It's a similar principle to how we treated bovine papillomas back in the day - release a bunch of virus all at once into the bloodstream by crushing a bunch of the warts with a hemostat. The response was typically astonishing - once the body recognized the virus as foreign, with a little help from humans, the rest was just up to nature and built-in immune function.

[xchrom]

4. Good news, indeed. Nt

[cutlassmama]

6. Didn't Farrah Fawcett die of anal cancer? I wonder if that's how

she got it?

[trotsky]

7. Yes, she did, and yes, that's probably how.

Sad story, but encouraging to know we now have tools to prevent what she had to go through.