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NCI: Posted on Friday, October 19, 2012 3:50 PM
An increase in the incidence of anal cancer among men in the United States during recent decades may have been driven in part by the HIV epidemic that occurred during the same period, a new study suggests. The results, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute on October 4, provide a framework for understanding the rising rates of anal cancer in men and could help guide efforts to prevent the disease.
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NCI: Posted on Thursday, November 03, 2011 6:28 PM
Results of a study of men who have sex with men revealed that vaccination with the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil, which protects against HPV types 6, 11, 16, and 18, reduced their risk of persistent anal HPV infection and decreased the incidence of anal intraepithelial neoplasia, a lesion known to precede anal cancer. The findings were published October 27 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The incidence of anal cancer has been growing by around 2 percent a year in the general population. |
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