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HPV vaccination of adolescent boys
may be cost-effective for preventing
orophaIT TrRyANnSFgOReMAaTIlONcancer

A study led by Dr. Lillian Siu at of the American Cancer Society.
The research team compared the potential costs and
PRriEnSceEsAs MRCarHgaAreNt CDanINceNr COeVnAtrTe ION effectiveness of vaccinating adolescent boys in Canada
against HPV for preventing HPV-related OPC.
indicates that vaccinating 12-year-old When the investigators applied a statistical model to
boys against the humanpapilloma a population of 192,940 Canadian boys who were 12
virus (HPV) may be a cost-effective in 2012, they discovered HPV vaccination could save
strategy for preventing oropharyngeal squamous cell from $8 million to $28 million over the boys’ lifetimes.
“We hope that results from this study would raise
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important public health issue,” says Dr. Siu, Senior
the tongue. Medical Oncologist at the Princess Margaret and a
Findings of the study, done in collaboration with Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
researchers from the Canadian Centre for Applied
Research in Cancer Control, were published online
April 13, 2015 in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal

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