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Power to Prevent HPV Cancer

You Have the Power to Prevent Six Cancers

The power to prevent HPV cancer is in your hands!

Be a Part of the HPV Super Six Hero Team!

The “HPV Super Six” are a team of superheroes with the power to prevent HPV cancers! Each superhero represents a clinical audience and is powered by a clinical action guide.  Each action guide was carefully developed and rigorously reviewed by experts in each target profession and includes specific tools to help HPV Super Six heroes activate their special power to prevent HPV cancers.

Powerful Heroes Need Powerful Tools

We know how hard it can be for heroes to keep up with and compile the latest research and evidence-base for increasing HPV vaccinations on top of all their other responsibilities. That is why the National HPV Vaccination Roundtable created these easy to use clinical action guides. Each guide has been rigorously reviewed by experts in each target profession and are grounded in evidence from trusted sources such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We’ve done the heavy lifting and made it easy for clinical audiences to find and implement trusted, evidence-based strategies for increasing HPV vaccination.

Take Action

Do you see or treat 11-13-year-old youth as part of your practice, clinic or health system? If so, you could join a powerful team of six superheroes – all of whom have the power to prevent cancer by recommending, delivering, or prioritizing the HPV vaccine. You have the power and now you have the tools. These six action guides will help you and the rest of the HPV Super Six Heroes prevent up to six cancers caused by HPV infection!

  1. Nurses & Medical Assistants
  2. Physicians, Physician Assistants, and Nurse Practitioners
  3. Dental Health Care Providers
  4. Office Staff
  5. Large Health Systems
  6. Small Practices

Communicators

Do you manage or influence the content for your organization’s social media accounts, newsletters, or websites? If so, we have made it super easy for you to sign up to receive a suite of tools to help you reach your specific audiences with “Power to Prevent HPV Cancer” messages.

All you have to do is CLICK HERE.

Join the HPV Super Six Hero Team!

Click on an an HPV Super Six Hero below to learn how they have the power to prevent six types of HPV cancers.

Nurses & Medical Assistants

Activate your cancer prevention powers

Nurses & Medical Assistants

Activate your cancer prevention powers

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Use your influence to encourage cancer prevention. Know that your voice is powerful. The parents in your practice see you as a trusted health professional. Help normalize the HPV vaccine as part of the adolescent vaccination “bundle.”

Spread the word: vaccines save lives. Your words matter. Know and represent the philosophy and policies of your practice to help parents understand the value of the HPV vaccine as a powerful tool of cancer prevention.

Answer parents’ questions. Your influence begins the moment you greet a patient or parent or answer their phone calls. Answering parents’ questions effectively builds trust in your practice and enhances your credibility. Answer the questions you can and refer others to your team.

Maximize clinical opportunities. Advocate for workflows that improve on HPV vaccination delivery and reduce missed opportunities. Know who is due for the HPV vaccine and make effective use of provider prompts in your EHR.

Take the lead. If your practice allows for standing orders (procedures to facilitate efficient delivery of vaccines to age-eligible patients by properly trained medical staff other than a physician), vaccinate every eligible patient during their visit.

Looking for more quick tips? Try this CDC 5 tips to boost your HPV vaccination rates. CDC “How I recommend” videos are also a great resource.

Physicians, Physician Assistants, and Nurse Practitioners

Show your strength to fight HPV cancers

Physicians, Physician Assistants, and Nurse Practitioners

Show your strength to fight HPV cancers.

DOWNLOAD your Action Guide!

Make a presumptive recommendation. Your recommendation is the #1 reason parents choose to vaccinate their children. Presumptive statements— brief statements that assume parents are ready to vaccinate—are most effective. Watch the CDC #HowIRecommend videos to get some pointers.

Answer parents’ questions. Answering parents’ questions effectively builds trust. After you make a presumptive recommendation, be prepared to answer parents’ questions succinctly, accurately, and empathetically by using terms that they understand. Emphasize that the vaccine is safe, effective, and prevents cancer.

Maximize clinical opportunities. Use every opportunity to provide vaccination and keep patients up to date. Every visit check to see if a patient is due for vaccinations. Effectively use provider prompts in your EHR.

Evaluate and sustain success. Establish systematic ways to evaluate your success. Implement quality improvement strategies for increasing immunization rates. Know your rates and how they compare against your practice’s goals.

Looking for more quick tips? Try this CDC 5 tips to boost your HPV vaccination rates. CDC “How I recommend” videos are also a great resource.

Dental Health Care Providers professionals

Use your voice to prevent HPV cancers

Dental Health Care Providers 

Use your voice to prevent HPV cancers

DOWNLOAD your Action Guide!

Know your unique role. Dental providers play a unique role in HPV cancer prevention. Adolescent patients often come in twice a year for dental visits, more than they may go to their pediatrician or primary care provider. Their time in your chair may be their opportunity to learn about HPV vaccination.

Practice cancer prevention. Parents may be unaware of the link between HPV and oropharyngeal cancer. Educate parents of your pediatric patients (starting around age 9 or 10) about the risks of HPV and the importance of getting the HPV vaccine for their adolescent children.

Refer patients for vaccinations. Parents may be ready to get their child vaccinated after speaking with you about the HPV vaccine. Know where they can go, be it to a local health system, community health center, or local health department.

Collaborate. Consider partnering with pediatricians and primary care providers to ensure the continuum of care. Together you can develop and share examples of clear, concise messages.

Engage your team. Educate your entire team about the link between HPV infection and oropharyngeal cancer. Create a culture of cancer prevention by arming staff with language to speak professionally and confidently about the vaccine.

Office Staff

Unite to end HPV cancers

Office Staff

Unite to end HPV cancers

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Represent a pro-immunization culture to patients and parents. Your words matter. Front desk staff are the face of the practice. Know that your voice is powerful and can influence whether parents protect their children against cancer.

Help families. When you are familiar with the recommended vaccine schedules, you help families stay healthy. You have the power to ensure families get their next dose scheduled before they leave the office. CDC recommends that all boys and girls start the HPV vaccine series at age 11 or 12 and complete by age 13.

Provide payment and insurance coverage guidance. Let parents know that the cost of the HPV vaccine is regularly covered by insurance or the VFC Program. Work as a team to develop answers to questions about insurance coverage.

Be an HPV vaccine champion. Create a pro-immunization environment by displaying and distributing posters, brochures, flyers, and handouts. Encourage cancer prevention messaging on your online channels, including the patient portal and the practice’s website and social media platforms.

Small Practices

Teamwork makes the HPV cancer prevention dream work

Small Practices

Teamwork makes the HPV cancer prevention dream work

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Identify an HPV vaccine champion. Establish an HPV vaccination clinic champion to help structure and drive organizational change. Empower the champion to assemble an HPV vaccine team to develop and meet goals.

Secure buy-in from leadership. Engage practice leadership to voice support for HPV quality improvement initiatives.  Obtain their input for planning and help reducing barriers.

Minimize missed opportunities. Use every opportunity to provide vaccination and keep patients up to date. Every visit check to see if a patient is due for vaccinations. Optimize provider prompts for the HPV series in your EHR.

Adopt strategies to reduce financial barriers. Find means to make patient costs affordable and billing accurate.  Consult with your practice’s primary payors to determine what resources, materials, or practice incentives they may offer. Explore cost sharing or group purchasing with other practices/systems to decrease costs.

Evaluate, sustain, and celebrate success. Monitor your practice and provider-specific HPV vaccination rates. This will help uncover opportunities for improvement. Use quality improvement methods and provider feedback to monitor the ongoing success of your efforts.

Large Health Systems

It takes the whole system to make HPV cancer history

Large Health Systems

It takes the whole system to make HPV cancer history

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Making HPV vaccination a priority can improve patient experiences. Vaccination can prevent the pain and suffering that comes from HPV cancers. Plus, on-time vaccination means patients only need two doses instead of three, saving parents and patients time and money.

  • Decrease costs – preventing cancer is less expensive than treating it
  • Improve quality care – protect your patient population from HPV infections and cancers through prevention
  • Improve patient experiences – two vaccination visits are much less time, money, and worries for patients than cancer

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