Boys get cancer, too

Article here. Excerpt:

'So far in Canada, P.E.I. is the only province offering free vaccines for boys, with Alberta planning to follow suit in the fall.

Would such a vaccination program be expensive? Yes it would, but there are far greater costs at stake — we’re talking about preventing human suffering and, in come cases, death.

This province vaccinates girls, which is important, since HPV causes cervical cancer. But it can also cause genital warts, and anal, penile and throat cancers in boys.
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The Department of Health told The Telegram recently: “The high uptake of the HPV vaccine among girls has protected approximately 50 per cent of the population, which significantly lowers the possibility of contracting and transmitting the virus between sexes.”

That’s an awfully narrow view of the world.

What about males who have sex with males? What about males who travel and have sex with females who have not been vaccinated? Our young men are hardly living in a bubble; they can move about, after all.

The policy of vaccinating only girls discriminates against boys on a couple of levels — one, by suggesting that only girls deserve this measure of protection and two, by ignoring the fact that HPV can be transmitted between men.'