{"id":627125,"date":"2026-04-24T04:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/627125\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T04:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:23:09","slug":"hpv-vaccine-for-boys-halves-their-risk-of-multiple-cancers-jama-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/627125\/","title":{"rendered":"HPV vaccine for boys halves their risk of multiple cancers, JAMA study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vaccinating young men against HPV reduces their risk of HPV-related cancers by almost half, a retrospective cohort study suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese researchers have used a US-heavy global database to compare 510,260 males aged 9-26 who had received at least one dose of the 9-valent HPV vaccine with propensity score-matched unvaccinated males.<\/p>\n<p>Australian authorities recommend all adolescents and young adults aged 9-25 get vaccinated against HPV, with boys included in the recommendation since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The study found the incidence of head and neck, penile, oesophageal and anal cancers \u2014 which can be caused by HPV \u2014 was 46% lower in vaccinated men compared with the unvaccinated men.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-none message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vaccinating young men against HPV reduces their risk of HPV-related cancers by almost half, a retrospective cohort study&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119240,64,63,1617,137,3342,53953,68245,186648,30623,44,5311,48167,2286,3851],"class_list":{"0":"post-627125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-adolescent-medicine","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-cancer","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-hpv","14":"tag-hpv-vaccine","15":"tag-immunisation","16":"tag-infectious-diseases-immunisation","17":"tag-mens-health","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-oncology","20":"tag-paediatrics","21":"tag-study","22":"tag-vaccination"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}