NEW YORK, May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- National Women's Health Week runs from May 13-19 and includes National Women's Check-up Day on May 14.

Research by the American Academy of Family Physicians demonstrates that vulvar cancer occurs most frequently in women age 65 to 75 years of age.

Twenty-five thousand cases of human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated cancers occurred in 38 states and the District of Columbia annually during 1998-2003, according to studies conducted by CDC.

The FDA has approved Merck & Co's Gardasil vaccine for the prevention of vaginal and vulvar cancer caused by human papillomavirus types 16 and 18 in girls and women ages nine to 26.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has expanded the use of the cervical vaccine Gardasil for the prevention of vaginal and vulvar cancers.