Revista de la Facultad de Medicina (Jul 2017)

Should male children be vaccinated against human papillomavirus?

  • Gerardo Sebastián Legua-Pérez,
  • José Fidel Ramos-Canevaro

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15446/revfacmed.v65n3.61313
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 65, no. 3

Abstract

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Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the main risk factor for the development of cervical cancer in women and other types of malignancies in men, including penile, oropharyngeal and perianal cancer. These neoplasms take longer to be detected because the infection is asymptomatic and silent in men