2023-10-04 04:50:00
2023/10/04 12:50
Do girls only need to prevent HPV infection? Be careful, men are more likely to be infected! Experts say that the probability of men being infected with HPV in their lifetime is more than 90%, which is 85% higher than that of women. Even if men are not threatened by cervical cancer, the risk of oropharyngeal and head and neck cancers caused by HPV infection is greater for men than for women. Therefore, we call on both men and women to receive the HPV vaccine. The protective efficacy of the vaccine is better than the antibodies produced by natural infection with HPV, and can block the risk of repeated infection with the virus.
Tsai Li-juan, deputy executive director of the Taiwan Cancer Foundation, said: “Men need to pay more attention to human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and vaccination than women.” She cited the latest 2023 international medical journal “The Lancet”Research on HPV infection in menlist 3 key points:
One in three men over the age of 15 is infected with at least one HPV type. One in five men is infected with one or more pathogenic or highly carcinogenic HPV types in vaccine policies. On the surface, it is called on men and women to receive the HPV vaccine together, which can exert a synergistic protective effect and reduce the incidence and mortality of other HPV-related diseases.
Cai Lijuan explained that the current publicly funded HPV vaccine is used to prevent cervical cancer in women, which causes the public to misunderstand that “HPV vaccine = cervical cancer vaccine.” She pointed out that both men and women should be vaccinated against HPV at the same time, so that the overall vaccine protection efficacy can be maximized.
Half of parents answered incorrectly in HPV awareness survey
However, according to the latest vaccine awareness survey compiled by the Taiwan Cancer Foundation, Taiwan’s primary and junior high school parents have no gender differences in their knowledge of vaccines other than HPV, but there are “men and women’s differences” in the risk of HPV infection:47% of parents believe that their daughters are at high risk of being infected by HPV, while only 7% of parents believe that their sons are at high risk of infection. The gap in risk perception is nearly 7 times.
Cai Lijuan pointed out that the questionnaire survey was targeted at parents who have at least one boy in the family and whose school age is between the fifth grade of elementary school and the third grade of junior high school. A total of 1,000 valid questionnaires were collected and found that: 30% of parents believe that girls are more likely to be infected with HPV than boys; more than half Parents believe that it is necessary for their daughters to be vaccinated against HPV. Only less than 25% of them think that boys need it. They also do not know that HPV can cause head and neck cancer, oropharyngeal cancer and other related cancers.It represents that most people still misunderstand that women should pay more attention to the risk of HPV infection than men.
Men are at higher risk of contracting HPV than women
Li Bingying, honorary chairman of the Taiwan Vaccine Promotion Association and attending physician at the Department of Pediatrics at National Taiwan University Children’s Hospital, said that even if penile cancer, which is only found in men, and cervical cancer, vaginal cancer, which are only found in women, are calculated together, the overall risk of men being infected with HPV in their lifetime is still As high as 91.3%, higher than 84.6% of women,“Men have a higher risk of being infected with HPV than women, and the natural antibodies they produce after infection are worse than women, making them more susceptible to repeated infections.”
Li Bingying explained that there are two main reasons:Because men’s immune systems are inherently weaker than women’s, and the natural site of HPV infection is only the epithelial layer of the skin, which has difficulty entering blood vessels and lymphatic channels. It is not like women’s cervical cancer is infected with the virus in the body, and the natural antibodies produced will be more effective than women’s. Poor, the risk of re-infection is higher.The HPV vaccine is injected intramuscularly and delivers antibodies directly into the body’s immune system, making it more effective than natural antibodies.
Men have higher risk of head, neck and oropharyngeal cancers
Liao Liren, deputy secretary-general of the Taiwan Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Association and a physician in the Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at Yadong Hospital, said,In view of the fact that HPV infection may lead to the risk of oropharyngeal cancer and head and neck cancer, both men and women are at risk of cancer, and men are at a higher risk.In addition to HPV, this situation is also closely related to the fact that men are more likely to engage in unhealthy lifestyle behaviors such as smoking, drinking, and betel nut. Among them, the proportion of oropharyngeal cancer has been on the rise in recent years.
Lai Jiming, CEO of the Taiwan Cancer Foundation, emphasized that to prevent persistent HPV infection from causing related cancers, in addition to lifestyle changes, such as safer sex, quitting smoking and drinking, quitting betel nut, staying away from risk factors, and regular smear examination for women , and also called on “men and women alike” to follow medical advice and receive the HPV vaccine together.
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This article is reproduced with permission from “Youhuo Health Network”, the original text isTaiwanese people take “this vaccine” to favor girls over boys!National Taiwan University Medical Police: “2 fatal causes”: Men are at higher risk of HPV
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