PSA, everyone should be getting the HPV vaccine, regardless of age and gender.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPV_vaccine
https://www.mdanderson.org/publications/focused-on-health/wh...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPV_vaccine
https://www.mdanderson.org/publications/focused-on-health/wh...
This is false, please don't take medical advice from an HN post. CDC guidelines do include quite a bit of discussion of patient age. [1]
1. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/hpv/hcp/recommendations.htm...
The claim is that you're more likely to catch the virus early in your life and thus "lifetime efficacy" is reduced as you grow older. Duh, this is true of any vaccine. There are various strains of HPV and you can catch them one after the other. Having HPV at 50 is just as painful as when you're 18, if not more since your immune system is less effective.
The second part of I don't understand this advice is that they say there's no HPV test for men because the result is non-actionable. What? HIV is also nearly "non-actionable" but knowing one has it definitely reduces the chances of spreading it, does it not?
I don't get it.
I got the vaccine in my thirties against doctor's advice.
Please get the vaccine if you're sexually active with more than one person, regardless of your age.