1. Extending Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination beyond female adolescents and after treatment for high grade CIN: the Italian HPV Study Group (IHSG) review and position paper.
- Author
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Origoni M, Cristoforoni P, Mariani L, Costa S, Preti M, Sandri MT, Preti EP, Ghelardi A, and Perino A
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- Adolescent, Alphapapillomavirus immunology, Child, Female, Humans, Italy, Male, Papillomavirus Vaccines administration & dosage, Uterine Cervical Neoplasms immunology, Uterine Cervical Dysplasia immunology, Alphapapillomavirus drug effects, Paper, Papillomavirus Vaccines pharmacology, Uterine Cervical Neoplasms drug therapy, Uterine Cervical Dysplasia drug therapy
- Abstract
Objective: Human PapillomaVirus (HPV) vaccination has been introduced in recent years in clinical practice as the most effective primary prevention strategy for cervical cancer and HPV-induced lesions, either pre-malignant or benign. Since its introduction, HPV vaccination has been progressively demonstrated as extremely effective in preventing extra-genital and male diseases also; furthermore, non only adolescents but adult subjects have been investigated and reported as positively responding to vaccine immunostimulation. More recently, effectiveness of post-treatment vaccine administration has been preliminarily investigated with very promising results in terms of decreased recurrences. On this basis, we report an Italian-focused picture of the state of the art and take a position in favour of the extension of HPV vaccination to male adolescents, to older age groups and to already treated subjects.
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- 2020
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