• Therefore@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Did you read a different article?

    TLDR; Men should also get the HPV vaccine, it’s not just good for cervical cancer prevention - but a range of other cancers.

    • Maki@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Fact: The HPV vaccine was developed to combat the HPV-related cervical cancer in women.

      The HPV vaccine would not have existed without raised standards in healthcare to specifically develop medicines for women based on the ailments they have as opposed to prescribing the same methods of treatment that were developed for men.

      There are still ailments women have which are largely ignored or for which they’re given the treatments developed for men with the idea that it would just work out for them, with no studies on potential side effects.

      With HPV vaccines made specifically for women, now we are able to deduce that it would also help men with various HPV-related cancers even if they do not have a cervix.

      Gender equality in medical studies and treatments is increasing, and hopefully more treatments developed for women will show additional benefits for the larger population in due time.

      If cervical cancer in women had never been treated, the benefits of the HPV vaccine for men would have never been discovered.

      My statement remains correct, and you entirely missed its meaning.