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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-03/oral-sex-may-cause-virus-linked-throat-cancer-in-men-study.html

Oral Sex May Cause More Throat Cancer Than Smoking in Men

A virus spread by oral sex may cause more cases of throat cancer in men than smoking, a finding that spurred calls for a new large-scale test of a drug used against the infection.



Researchers examined 271 throat-tumor samples collected over 20 years ending in 2004 and found that the percentage of oral cancer linked to the human papillomavirus, or HPV, surged to 72 percent from about 16 percent, according to a report released yesterday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. By 2020, the virus-linked throat tumors -- which mostly affected men -- will become more common than HPV-caused cervical cancer, the report found.



HPV is known for infecting genitals. The finding that it can spread to the throat and cause cancer may increase pressure on Merck & Co., the second-largest U.S. drugmaker, to conduct large-scale trials to see if its vaccine Gardasil, which wards off cervical cancer in women, also prevents HPV throat infections.



“The burden of cancer caused by HPV is going to shift from women to men in this decade,” Maura Gillison, an oncologist at Ohio State University and study senior author, said in a telephone interview. “What we believe is happening is that the number of sexual partners and exposure to HPV has risen over that same time period.”



Gillison said she worked with researchers at Whitehouse Station, New Jersey-based Merck several years ago to design a study in men. After Merck acquired Schering-Plough Corp. in 2009, though, the trial “was canceled,” she said.
No Further Study

Pamela Eisele, a spokeswoman for Merck, said the company decided not to move ahead with a big oral cancer study “due to competing research and business priorities.” GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK) has “no plans” to study the company’s competing vaccine Cervarix outside of cervical cancer, Jennifer Armstrong, a company spokeswoman, said in an e-mail.



Gardasil is approved for preventing cervical, vaginal and anal cancers and genital warts, and is recommended for girls and women ages 9 through 26. It is also approved for preventing genital warts and anal cancer in boys and young men of the same ages. Glaxo’s Cervarix is approved for preventing cervical cancer in females ages 9 through 25.



Both vaccines target the HPV strain linked to oral cancer, Gillison said.
HPV-linked throat cancers, or orophyaryngeal cancer, are increasing so rapidly that by 2020 there will be 8,700 U.S. cases, with 7,400 cases in men, versus 7,700 cases of cervical cancer, the study said. Male cases alone will outnumber cervical cancer cases soon after 2020, Gillison said. The Ohio State study is based on tumor samples from several U.S. states.
HPV Infections

Roughly 20 million Americans have genital HPV infections, according to the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At least half of sexually active women and men get it at some point in their lives, the CDC says. Most of the time it doesn’t cause health problems.



Until recently, head and neck cancer mainly occurred in older patients and was associated with tobacco and alcohol use. The HPV-linked head and neck cancers, usually of the tonsils, palate or tongue, hit men their 30s, 40s, and 50s, Gillison said. It is unclear why women are affected much less often than men, she said.



The decline in HPV-negative oral cancers mirrors the decline of smoking in the U.S., the study said.



Treatment involving chemotherapy, radiation and sometimes surgery, “is very nasty,” said Gillison. “It can leave people with permanent physical disfigurement, difficulty with speech and swallowing and poor dental health.”
Research Effort

Gillison started researching the oral cancer epidemic more than a decade ago as a fellow at Johns Hopkins University. Another researcher told her about a report from Europe of a case of oral cancer that was HPV positive, she said.



“I started working on it immediately,” she said.
In a 2007 epidemiology study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Gillison and her colleagues found that having a high number of oral or vaginal sex partners are risk factors for HPV-associated throat cancer. The cancer may also be spread by open-mouth kissing, Gillison said in the interview.



“Nobody paid attention to oral HPV infections until 2007,” she said. “We are about 15 years behind in the research” compared with the data on cervical cancer and HPV, she said.



An editorial accompanying the study concluded that trials to see whether vaccines prevent oral cancer “are needed, given that prevention through vaccination will almost certainly be the ultimate solution” to HPV-positive oral cancers.



A key step would be to perform a natural history study that would follow people over a number of years and track in more detail how HPV-oral infections lead to cancer. This could help inform how to design a vaccine trial, Gillison said.



Both vaccines target the HPV strain linked to oral cancer, Gillison said.

Cupcake_Crisis

SHUT UP!!!!!!

Celly Smunt

why does everything delicious have to give you cancer :mad:

MrJoeSoap

Never trust a "scientific" study that uses the word "may" in its findings.

pablomakaveli

Guess im just gonna have to have throat cancer then.

bronte

Aww nuts!

Saila

its Ok Im not gay \o/

chin_grin

Giving self throat cancer? Mission accepted.

Saila

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

Never trust a "scientific" study that uses the word "may" in its findings.

these are the ones to trust!

Pete M.

Saila wrote: »

its Ok Im not gay \o/

You saying fags give you cancer?

Mike 1972

King of the Eyesores wrote: »

the percentage of oral cancer linked to the human papillomavirus, or HPV, surged to 72 percent from about 16 percent

Which is why the "cervical" cancer (HPV) vacciene should be offered to blokes as well as girls TBH

Cill Dara Abu

chin_grin wrote: »

Giving self throat cancer? Mission accepted.

Challenge???

LH Pathe

I blow smoke rings anyhow, what's the difference?

Saila

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0voTmc0VhA

Cupcake_Crisis

Pete M. wrote: »

You saying fags give you cancer?

Zing!

LH Pathe

Ring-a-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding .. =p

4leto

pmcmahon wrote: »

why does everything delicious have to give you cancer :mad:

And it may be healthy for men and women to get the vaccine, they just increased their sales by 50%.

I think I already know the results of further research.

shannon_tek

Cancer from your mobiles
Cancer from your laptop
Cancer from your root crop
Cancer from your shoes, from your dog, from your pen top
and now sex whoo. :pac:





Just so's yous knows im not makings it up its got to be true if its written in the daily mail

4leto

It all cancer from living longer really.

chin_grin

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

Challenge???

Van Dammit!

LH Pathe

shannon_tek wrote: »

Cancer from your mobiles
Cancer from your laptop
Cancer from your root crop
Cancer from your shoes, from your dog, from your pen top
and now sex whoo. :pac:





[SIZE="1"][COLOR="Silver"]Just so's yous knows im not makings it up its got to be true if its written in the daily mail[/COLOR]
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readin all that gives me a pain in he pancreas



.. -cancer??

mconigol

There's a thread on Boards somewhere that if you click into you may instantly get eye cancer.

Princess Peach

This isn't on. No need to be spreading this news.

Thread needs to be deleted, or boyfriend banned from After Hours.

stupidusername

Hardly a big surprise now is it. HPV is contracted from sex,HPV can cause cancer.

4leto

So alot of us have come to the realisation that either going down or HPV have to go.

So on this new information, forget about all the other problems, HPV is now human enemy number one.

Irish Slaves for Europe

I'm never going down on a burd on a one night stand again. And if I have a girlfriend I'll only go down on her once a week and only if she has had a shower immediately before hand, and then afterwards I will gargle a mouthwash containing alcohol.

stupidusername

Irish Slaves for Europe wrote: »

I'm never going down on a burd on a one night stand again. And if I have a girlfriend I'll only go down on her once a week and only if she has had a shower immediately before hand, and then afterwards I will gargle a mouthwash containing alcohol.

So hot water and alcohol kill viruses?

danniemcq

that and wishing really hard

4leto

Doesn't mouthwash give you mouth cancer?

Irish Slaves for Europe

4leto wrote: »

Doesn't mouthwash give you mouth cancer?

no, theres been no scientific study or any evidence whatsoever to even suggest mouthwash gives you cancer

Irish Slaves for Europe

stupidusername wrote: »

So hot water and alcohol kill viruses?

it helps kill germs and bacteria to reduce the chance of viruses

4leto

Irish Slaves for Europe wrote: »

no, theres been no scientific study or any evidence whatsoever to even suggest mouthwash gives you cancer

Oh yes there has
http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=4&sqi=2&ved=0CFIQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishhealth.com%2Farticle.html%3Fid%3D19595&ei=vA-MTsPkLoi88gPflf3RBg&usg=AFQjCNFFmk-pjm4-8DngZO0DMqBLAcBviQ

4leto

Irish Slaves for Europe wrote: »

it helps kill germs and bacteria to reduce the chance of viruses

Depends on the virus and bacteria, some thrive in water and alcohol and all you need is to miss one of the blighter's and you can get an infection.

Kasabian

bronte wrote: »

Aww nuts!

Wow, how big is your mouth?

ceadaoin.

Irish Slaves for Europe wrote: »

no, theres been no scientific study or any evidence whatsoever to even suggest mouthwash gives you cancer

Well actually...

http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/51/11/3044.short
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/27/johnson-johnson-sued-mouthwash-cancer-fears
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/4223380/Mouthwash-can-cause-oral-cancer.html

Irish Slaves for Europe wrote: »

it helps kill germs and bacteria to reduce the chance of viruses

I don't think that is the case. Killing them will have no effect on your chances of being infected with a virus

stupidusername

Irish Slaves for Europe wrote: »

it helps kill germs and bacteria to reduce the chance of viruses

so all we need to do is throw some mouthwash on our vagingos and it's oral for all again!? \o/

BBDBB

stupidusername wrote: »

so all we need to do is throw some mouthwash on our vagingos and it's oral for all again!? \o/

now girls, remember to gargle, rinse and spit:D

Typh

If this means taking cancer on face to vagina as opposed to face to face, so be it. /puts on Indiana Jones hat

donalg1

ah dont worry about it there will be another report in a week from a different scientist saying its actually good for you and can combat cancer.

NothingMan

So we give women a quick shot of protein or at least a nice skin lotion and what do we get? Cancer. Typical feckin women, just like the way we buy them jewelery and flowers and we get socks or a shaving set.

4leto

It ain't going to stop me, beside there are a host of infections and contagions we can get from kissing and sex in general.

I love the reaction for years we have been transmitting the virus to women and endangering them to cervical cancers.

But now that the glove is on the other foot,,PANIC

OakeyDokey

I can see it now, this is going to replace the headache excuse!

"I can't tonight dear I might get throat cancer"

Dravokivich

stupidusername wrote: »

so all we need to do is throw some mouthwash on our vagingos and it's oral for all again!? \o/

The smell of peppermint off ya! :pac:

stupidusername

Dravokivich wrote: »

The smell of peppermint off ya! :pac:

:eek:

morto

BBDBB

show us yer ring of confidence darlin!:D

Dublin_Gunner

Problem solved. (image code not working???)

tightropetom

This is why it makes no sense that they only vaccinate girls against HPV at present. Human Papilloma Virus has been implicated in cervical cancer but has been implicated in head&neck squamous cell carcinomas recently and can affect males and females. The vaccine should be offered to both sexes