HPV vaccination for girls and boys in the United States has led to a real-world reduction of oral head and neck cancers in men, as well as the already documented prevention of cervical cancers in women, even though uptake of the vaccine in the U.S. has been suboptimal. This is according to findings from a retrospective analysis of HPV-associated cancer incidence, reported at the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting. 

At the Chicago meeting, OncTimesTalk reporter Peter Goodwin met up with the lead author of the research, Jefferson DeKloe, BSc, from the Department of Otolaryngology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.