#anal cancer

HIV, anti-vaxxers, dengue fever and weak primary health care make the World Health Organization’s list of priorities.

Can photodynamic therapy eliminate the virus that causes cervical, anal and oral cancer?

Human papillomavirus vaccine can prevent cervical, anal and oral cancers.

Human papillomavirus can cause anal, cervical, oral and other cancers.

Human papillomavirus vaccine can prevent cervical, anal and oral cancers.

Vaccine has the potential to prevent 90 percent of HPV-related cancers.

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HIV positive since 1996, Kevin Langeslay was diagnosed with stage 4 anal cancer in 2011.

In a survey, parents ranked “It can prevent some types of cancer” as the best reason for their children to receive the vaccine.

Only 40 percent of girls and 21 percent of boys are receiving the recommended three doses of the human papillomavirus vaccine.

Declining rates are expected for Kaposi sarcoma, non–Hodgkin lymphoma, cervical and lung cancer and Hodgkin lymphoma, among others.

However, a recent randomized controlled trial found evidence that the vaccine may prevent oral infections in this population.

Known as HPV16, the strain of human papillomavirus is strongly associated with anal cancer.

However, older people with HIV have a lower rate of a few other cancers compared with the general population.

Race, sex and age can play a role in a person’s recovery for certain mouth, cervical and anal cancers.