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May 10, 2007

Well, this certainly sucks!

Oral sex may increase risk of throat cancer -- study


Agence France-Presse
Last updated 07:23am (Mla time) 05/10/2007

CHICAGO -- A common virus, believed to be transmitted during oral sex, is the cause of a rare throat cancer in both men and women, US researchers said Wednesday.

The study is the first to prove the link between the human papillomavirus or HPV -- the leading cause of cervical cancer -- and oropharyngeal cancer, according to the paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, who studied 100 men and women newly diagnosed with the rare malignancy and 200 healthy people found that a common strain of HPV -- HPV 16 -- was present in 72 percent of tumors.

Patients whose blood or saliva samples indicated that they had prior HPV infection were 32 times more likely to develop oropharnygeal cancer, which affects the throat, tonsils and back of the tongue.

And those people who had had more than six oral sex partners were 8.6 times more likely to develop the HPV-linked cancer.

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LindaSoG gets a hat tip for this article! She finds the most *interesting* facts!

Posted by Beth at May 10, 2007 6:42 AM

Comments

Very punny. Well, not always.

Posted by: JimC at May 10, 2007 8:28 AM

Well - that report's a little hard to swallow. So much for French women holding their "liquor".

Posted by: Mike L at May 10, 2007 8:56 AM

Snerk. And the only comments thus far are from friends of mine.

Heh. Well, I know who reads me!

Posted by: John of Argghhh! at May 10, 2007 10:38 AM

Wow, now I can't help but imagining some LA-style divorce cases where the divorcing wife sues for additional support on the grounds her husband intentionally gave her cancer.

As for me, since I have poor suction ability since getting dental bridges, I'm safe. Poor VH.

Posted by: Venomous Kate at May 10, 2007 11:27 AM

Notice it said, "rare". My opinion, seize the day, be fruitful and ... well, you know the rest.

Posted by: American Spectator at May 10, 2007 12:45 PM

American Spectator beat me to it. Besides, it's a *French* study. They are not who I go to for advice, they are where I go for fried.

Posted by: Maggie at May 11, 2007 7:02 AM

I for one always take a lickin' but keep on tickin'.

Posted by: Boquisucio at May 11, 2007 12:13 PM