2023-08-18 11:29:01
Cécile Badoual, professor of anatomopathology at the Georges Pompidou European Hospital in Paris, alerted on Friday the need to vaccinate children, boys and girls, once morest the papillomavirus before they enter sexuality, while a study published in “The Lancet” reveals that this virus affects almost a third of men over the age of 15.
“It is essential that vaccination is not gendered and strong on preventing the risk of cancer”insisted on Friday August 18 on franceinfo Cécile Badoual, professor of anatomopathology at the Georges Pompidou European Hospital in Paris, expert at the WHO, while a study published in The Lancet reveals that the papillomavirus affects almost a third of men over the age of 15.
franceinfo: Vaccination once morest the papillomavirus was reserved for young girls until 2021. Is it important to also include men?
Cecile Badoual: It is essential that vaccination is not gendered and strong on preventing the risk of cancer and lesions in girls and boys. When you look at this publication, it includes everything that can be found around the world on the information of a carrier, the presence of the papillomavirus, at the level of the genital organs of men.
In general, it is on arrival in sexuality that there is contamination by the papillomavirus and what is important is that there is a significant carriage of the papillomaviruses which risk transmitting cancers. This can be that of the cervix, vagina and vulva in women, but also a cancer that can be found in women and men that can be located in the anus, but also of what is called the oropharynx, that is to say at the back of the throat, the tonsils.
When should you get vaccinated?
Before meeting the papillomavirus, before entering into sexuality. This is why we recommend a two-dose vaccination for young people aged 11 to 14, whether girls or boys, or a catch-up up to 16 years of age. For men who have sex with men, who are at a slightly higher risk of getting anal cancer, we will offer catch-up vaccination up to the age of 26.
Should HPV vaccination be made compulsory?
We must have a strong action of understanding the fact that if in women there are tools for detecting the virus, there are none in men to seek out these cancers. For the anus or patients with HIV, there are protocols, but for the general population there are none. For ENT cancers, 80% are men.
Is France behind in this area?
We are at 46% of young girls, in 2021, who have received at least one dose. The WHO says that at least one dose before entering sexuality or the first year is something that is very effective. On the other hand, with the vaccination of boys and young men, we are very late.
It was therefore very important to offer a vaccination that might be offered to young girls and boys since 6% of young boys of age to be vaccinated are vaccinated in France. In other countries, vaccination is offered at school and in Australia it has been generalized to an entire age group.
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