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The number of people diagnosed with HPV-related oropharyngeal cancer, tumors found in the middle of the pharynx or throat including the back of the tongue, soft palate, sides of throat and tonsils — is relatively small — about 12,638 men and 3,100 women in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But these numbers are expected to continue to rise, overtaking incidence of cervical cancer by 2020. One study revealed the presence of HPV in 20.9 percent of oropharyngeal tumors before 1990, compared with 65.4 percent in those sampled after 2000.
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More than one in five adults in the United States has high-risk human papillomavirus, the type of HPV that can cause cancer, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The report provides the latest national estimates on oral and genital HPV — the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States — in adults ages 18 to 59. The report specifically looked at adults who didn't receive recommendations to get the HPV vaccine.
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Kaiser Health News via NPR
You'd think that a vaccine that protects people against more than a half dozen types of cancer would have patients lining up to get it. But the human papillomavirus vaccine, which can prevent roughly 90 percent of all cervical cancers as well as other cancers and sexually transmitted infections caused by the virus, has faced an uphill climb since its introduction more than a decade ago.
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News Medical
The incidence of HPV-associated head and neck squamous cell carcinoma of the oropharynx has dramatically increased over the last decade and is now more frequently diagnosed than uterine cervical cancer in the United States. To better understand the disease, a Yale Cancer Center team analyzed HNSCC data from The Cancer Genome Atlas to identify molecular characteristics of HPV+ HNSCC and correlated them with patient outcomes.
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Medical Xpress
Cancer of the oropharynx has become increasingly common: In the United States alone, the number of newly diagnosed cases has tripled over the past three decades. About 70 percent of these tumors are caused by infection with human papillomavirus type 16.
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Tech Times
Any potential concerns that vaccination during early pregnancy can be dangerous to the fetus and cause congenital abnormalities have now been put to rest by a recent Danish study.
Authored by researchers from the Statens Serum Institute in Copenhagen, the paper documents the quadrivalent HPV vaccine poses no health treats in the off-chance it is administered to pregnant women.
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The Huffington Post
Researchers found some good news for queer women regarding HPV: lesbian women seem to be getting vaccinated at about the same rate as heterosexual women, and bisexual women are getting vaccinated most of all. The bad news? The numbers are still below targets among all women, with about 27 percent of bisexual women and only 17 percent of other women having been vaccinated.
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ScienceDaily
The study, published in the journal Qualitative Health Research, found that many parents of unvaccinated children hadn't discussed the vaccine with healthcare providers or had low levels of vaccine awareness. Among vaccine-unaware parents, receiving even brief information about the HPV vaccine generally resulted in increased enthusiasm about the precautionary step.
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