Boys have been offered the HPV jab at school since September 2019 (Image: Getty) Thousands of cases of head and neck cancer are set to be prevented thanks to the success of the HPV vaccine. The revolutionary jab has already slashed rates of cervical cancer in women by around 90%. Now, a study presented at the world’s largest cancer conference found it more than halved rates of head and neck cancers among men.
Analysis of data from over five million US patients found there were 2.8 cases of head and neck cancers per 100,000 men who had the jab, compared with 6.3 cases per 100,000 among unvaccinated men.
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