The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now recommending that 11- and 12-year-old boys routinely receive HPV vaccinations:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/health/policy/26vaccine.html

The article notes that private insurers use the committee's recommendations to determine what vaccines they will pay for and that under last year's federal health-care overhaul, insurers participating in the health-insurance exchanges created by the law must offer the vaccines that the committee recommends as routine.


Leslie

April 2006: Husband dx by dentist with leukoplakia on tongue. Oral surgeon's biopsy 4/28/06: Moderate dysplasia; pathology report warned of possible "skip effect." ENT's excisional biopsy (got it all) 5/31/06: SCC in situ/small bit superficially invasive. Early detection saves lives.