Each year, HPV causes approximately 36,000 cases of cancer in men and women, CDC said. can help prevent cancer, and the vaccine aims to stop cancer before it can metastasize.

The HPV vaccine is made up of a protein that forms spontaneously into the virus. "It's essentially forming these empty spheres that, to our bodies, look like the virus, but, ...

A preliminary study from the 2024 ASCO conference showed that uptake of the HPV vaccine in the United States has gradually improved from 23.3% in 2011 to 43% in 2020.