Potential Magazine Summer 2020 | Page 9

IT’S WORTH A SHOT! HPV vaccine is cancer prevention. HPV infections are Why get extremely common the HPV Vaccine? % of people will 80 get an HPV infection v in their lifetime Time to catch-up It’s never too late to prevent cancer Teens and adults who have not been vaccinated or completed the vaccine series can still benefit. Talk to your doctor about the HPV vaccine and cancer prevention. alabamapublichealth.gov/cancer v v Prevents 90 % of HPV-related cancers Preventing cancer now is better than treating cancer later Provides safe, effective and long lasting protection