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Pervasive HPV myths that keep us from preventing cancer

Human papillomavirus causes hundreds of thousands of cases of cancer each year, yet the uptake of safe vaccines to prevent those cancers has been mindbogglingly slow.

I was glad to be quoted in a Reader's Digest story called "10 Myths About HPV That Could Seriously Damage Your Health."

Posted on August 7, 2016 by Tim Lahey and tagged HPV sexually transmitted infections sex vaccine public health.
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Tim Lahey, MD MMScAn HIV doc and clinical ethicist, I write about medicine, ethics, and HIV here and in The Atlantic, Scientific American, TheBody.com, Health Affairs blog, The Conversation and The New York Times. 

Tim Lahey, MD MMSc

 

An HIV doc and clinical ethicist, I write about medicine, ethics, and HIV here and in The Atlantic, Scientific American, TheBody.com, Health Affairs blog, The Conversation and The New York Times.