Which HPV strains should be covered in a new treatment?
By reading article Viruses and Human Cancer from Sarid and Gao. I said that out of the 100 types of Human papillomavirus (HPV) that had been identified, due to the limit resource in our society, we can’t provide all kinds of HPVs to everyone. As a healthcare professional, I will recommend the strains covered HPVs 16, 18, 31 and 45 as a priority. Because those are the HPVs that correlated almost 80% of the cervical cancer, also categorize as High-risk cases. If there’s more available resource, I would recommend two more HPVs to be in the cover strains, which is the types 6 and 11. These HPV might not be carcinogenic, but they are the cause of genital warts, which is also a common disease that transmitted between human is the U.S.
If all of those treatment could be in vaccine, it should be administered priority to new born and young people, which is any time before the age of 10-12 which is the age they could possibly have any sexual intercourse. So we could prevented them be exposure to any HPV. Of course, we should double check whether it will cost any side effect on young human immune system before giving the vaccine.
