JAMIE Rae was diagnosed with oropharyngeal cancer caused by HPV in 2010.
Two years later, he set up the Throat Cancer Foundation (TCF) after he became worried by the lack of information about the causes, treatment and prevention of all throat cancers.
The Falkirk businessman then focused on bringing to public consciousness the impact and contribution that HPV has to cancer, stressing the urgent need for boys to be vaccinated against it to give them the same level of protection already given to girls since 2008.
He was one of two founder members of an organisation called HPV Action in 2013, whose aim was to achieve gender-neutral vaccination in the UK. The group since grown and is recognised as a powerful lobbying body for HPV vaccination.
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TCF won a legal challenge last year against the UK Government to get boys vaccinated against HPV.
Rae said: “HPV is responsible globally for 5% of all cancers.
“We welcome the findings in this research and recognise that it is going to be a useful tool to help educate the general public as to why a nationwide HPV vaccination programme will benefit and protect children’s health in future years.”
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