Doctors who are currently giving Gardasil to boys, who are not part of the clinical trials, are doing it "off-label". The whole idea of the clinical trials is to work on efficacy, dose rates, dose rate levels where toxicity is encountered, etc. This can vary between races, age and sexes. Maybe the dose rate they give for girls is too low for boys.

Reverie,
Please get a resolution on this as soon as you can or it will ruin your vacation, just by increasing your worry threshold. Some doctors tend to minimize the OC risk for younger patients yet we have patients, in your age group, come here with low staged cancers and not survive. I am not trying scare you, and it may well be nothing, but in the remote chance that it IS SCC then time is everything.

You are wise to seek out a CCC for Dx and Tx.