{"id":80719,"date":"2018-06-07T11:11:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T21:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=80719"},"modified":"2020-03-13T12:10:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T22:10:04","slug":"hpv-related-cancers-call-to-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/06\/07\/hpv-related-cancers-call-to-action\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> Cancer Center issues call to action to eliminate HPV<\/abbr>-related cancers"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

\"\"<\/p>\n

The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Cancer Center<\/a> has partnered with 69 other National Cancer Institute (NCI<\/abbr>)-designated cancer centers to issue a statement today urging for increased human papillomavirus (HPV<\/abbr>) vaccination and screening to eliminate HPV<\/abbr>-related cancers<\/a>, starting with cervical cancer.<\/p>\n

These institutions collectively recognize insufficient vaccination as a public health threat and call upon physicians nationwide, parents and young adults to take advantage of this rare opportunity to eliminate several different types of cancer in men and women.<\/p>\n

As a part of this initiative, the UH<\/abbr> Cancer Center conducted a statewide survey of primary care physicians in 2015–2016 who identified specific barriers to adolescent HPV<\/abbr> vaccine uptake. The barriers identified were related to logistics, attitudes and perceptions, as well as the absence of school-based HPV<\/abbr> vaccine requirements.<\/p>\n

“HPV<\/abbr> vaccination remains a powerful tool in the effort to prevent cancers caused by the human papillomavirus in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>,” said Brenda Hernandez<\/strong>, UH<\/abbr> Cancer Center epidemiologist and senior author of the study published in the Journal of Community Health<\/em><\/a>. “The need for HPV<\/abbr> vaccination is underscored by the steady increase in certain HPV<\/abbr>-associated cancers including anal cancers in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and the U.S. overall.”<\/p>\n

Added UH<\/abbr> Cancer Center Director Randall Holcombe<\/strong><\/a>, “Preventing cancer is our central mission. We are honored to join our NCI<\/abbr>-designated cancer center colleagues and other cancer prevention organizations in recommending this call to action to reduce the burden of HPV<\/abbr>-related cancers.”<\/p>\n

Nearly 80 million Americans—one out of every four people—are infected with HPV<\/abbr>. Of those millions, more than 31,000 will be diagnosed with an HPV<\/abbr>-related cancer this year. Despite those staggering figures and the availability of a vaccine to prevent the infections that cause these cancers HPV<\/abbr> vaccination remains low in the U.S.<\/p>\n

—By Nana Ohkawa<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>Cancer Center joins 69 other National Cancer Institute-designated institutions collectively recognizing insufficient vaccination as a public health threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[218,169,9],"class_list":["post-80719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-cancer","tag-uh-cancer-center","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80719"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113509,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80719\/revisions\/113509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}