[Elimination of HPV-related cancer: a call for screening and HPV vaccination in The Netherlands]

Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2021 Mar 11:165:D5655.
[Article in Dutch]

Abstract

The World Health Organization launched a campaign on elimination of cervical cancer on November 17th 2020. In this article the authors give an overview of HPV-related cancer in The Netherlands and stress that HPV-vaccinations for boys and girls and screening for women is of utmost importance to eliminated cervical cancer in The Netherlands and the benefit for boys to avoid HPV related cancer themselves. They state that HPV vaccinations are efficient and safe. All Health Workers should counsel boys and girls and their parents toward HPV-vaccination for all.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Attitude to Health
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mass Screening / statistics & numerical data
  • Netherlands
  • Papillomavirus Infections / prevention & control*
  • Papillomavirus Vaccines / therapeutic use*
  • Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / prevention & control*
  • Vaccination / statistics & numerical data
  • World Health Organization

Substances

  • Papillomavirus Vaccines