Why should you vaccinate against HPV?

If you could protect yourself or your children from developing cancer through taking a shot, would you? This week, Risk Bites looks at why HPV vaccines are recommended for protection against cervical and other cancers, and how the risks and benefits pan out.

The Risk Bites Team:
Producer: Andrew Maynard
Research Director: David Faulkner
Research: Alyssa Berry

Risk Bites is supported by the ASU Risk Innovation Lab and School for the Future of Innovation in Society

FURTHER RESOURCES

(Also check out this video from DocMikeEvans:   • Should You Get the HPV Vaccine?  )

How Accurate Are the Recent Claims of the Dangers of the HPV-Vaccination Gardasil? Robyn Correll Carlyle, Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/quora/h...

Deadly dose? No. Here's what we're really wondering about the HPV vaccine. Beth Skwarecki, PloS blogs: http://blogs.plos.org/publichealth/20...

HPV Vaccines. CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/hpv/vaccine.html

HPV Vaccine - Questions & Answers. CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/h...

HPV -- FDA: http://www.fda.gov/forconsumers/byaud...

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Guardasil (FDA): http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVacc...

Cervarix (FDA): http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVacc...

PubMed Health. Cervical Cancer: Overview. National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine. Last updated: 16 April 2013. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhea...

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National Cancer Institute. HPV and Cancer: Detailed Fact Sheet. Last reviewed: 15 March 2012. http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/fa...

National Institute of Health. NIH Fact Sheet: Cervical Cancer. Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORT), Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow. Last updated 29 March 2013. http://report.nih.gov/nihfactsheets/v...