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In reply to the discussion: Michael Douglas says oral sex caused his throat cancer [View all]KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)They do not need the HPV vaccine.
Now women over the age of 18? Different story.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC145302/
http://www.rho.org/about-cervical-cancer.htm
About 630 million people worldwide are believed to be infected with HPV.6,9 In the United States, about 40% of young women become infected with HPV within three years of sexual debut, and globally, 50% to 80% of sexually active women are infected by HPV at least once in their lives.10,11 Fortunately, in most cases, these infections clear through natural immune responses. The vast majority of HPV infections are transient, becoming undetectable with molecular assays after a period of 4 to 18 months.12-14
http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2002/05/4737/low-grade-dysplasia-found-pap-smears-likely-regress-spontaneously
Teen-aged and young adult women who develop low-grade, benign lesions in the cervix due to human papilloma virus (HPV) have a 95 percent or better chance that the lesions will clear up on their own and not progress to a more advanced stage, a UCSF study shows