Why we should vaccinate boys against HPV as well as girls
Gillian Prue, from the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Queen’s University of Belfast, says that the human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is common in men and can lead to genital warts and the development of some head and neck, anal or penile cancers. She says incidence of this has increased in the past two decades with HPV causing 5% of all human cancers. …