{"id":243471,"date":"2026-09-01T09:10:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/20-years-ago-women-got-a-preventative-cancer-treatment-now-its-protecting-men-too"},"modified":"2026-09-01T09:10:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:10:44","slug":"20-years-ago-women-got-a-preventative-cancer-treatment-now-its-protecting-men-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/20-years-ago-women-got-a-preventative-cancer-treatment-now-its-protecting-men-too","title":{"rendered":"20 Years Ago, Women Got a Preventative Cancer Treatment. Now It\u2019s Protecting Men Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/20-years-ago-women-got-a-preventative-cancer-treatment-now-its-protecting-men-too.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is highly likely that a preventative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/cancer\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">cancer<\/a> treatment, originally targeted at women, is now also protecting men.<\/p>\n<p>The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is the first medicine in the world developed specifically to prevent cancer by targeting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/virus\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">virus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2006, but at first, it was only given to girls and women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is highly likely that a preventative cancer treatment, originally targeted at women, is now also protecting men. The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is the first medicine in the world developed specifically to prevent cancer by targeting a virus. It was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2006, but at first, it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}