Oral sex linked to cancer risk

[Blaze]

by Kerry Sheridan – Sun Feb 20, 8:57 pm ET

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WASHINGTON (AFP) – US scientists have said there is strong evidence linking oral sex to cancer, and urged more study of how human papillomaviruses may be to blame for a rise in oral cancer among white men.
In the United States, oral cancer due to HPV infection is now more common than oral cancer from tobacco use, which remains the leading cause of such cancers in the rest of the world.
Researchers have found a 225-percent increase in oral cancer cases in the United States from 1974 to 2007, mainly among white men, said Maura Gillison of Ohio State University.
"When you compare people who have an oral infection or not... the single greatest factor is the number of partners on whom the person has performed oral sex," said Gillison, who has been researching HPV and cancer for 15 years.
"When the number of partners increases, the risk increases," she told reporters at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Washington.
Previous studies have suggested that people who have performed oral sex on six or more partners over a lifetime face an eight-fold higher risk of acquiring HPV-related head or neck cancer than those with fewer than six partners, she said.
But even though the link between HPV and cervical cancer has been well known for many years, and vaccines now exist to provide some protection, much study remains to be done to confirm observational links and establish causes, Gillison said.
"The cervical cancer field is 20 years ahead," she said.
"We can't demonstrate definitively that certain behaviors are associated with risk of acquiring an infection," she said.
"The rise in oral cancer in the US is predominantly among young white males and we do not know the answer as to why."
Researcher Diane Harper of the University of Missouri said such studies will take time, but the oral cancer field may move more quickly by using technology already developed for detecting HPV in cervical cancer patients.
"One of the scientific technologies that have evolved over time is the way that we detect HPV," said Harper.
"I think that the head and neck cancer area will benefit from that because we have gone through all kinds of different laboratory techniques to make sure we are actually finding what we think is HPV and getting type-specific information to go with that."
There as many as 150 different types of human papillomaviruses, and about 40 of those can be sexually transmitted, according to the National Cancer Institute.
Some may cause genital warts, while other more high-risk varieties can cause oral, anal, vaginal and penile cancers.
Sexually transmitted HPV infections are common and often asymptomatic, and untreated cases in women are the main cause of cervical cancer.
Half of all sexually active Americans will get HPV at some point in their lives, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated.
Two vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, were approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2006 for HPV types that cause cervical cancer and genital warts.
However, only 40 percent of US girls have received one dose and just 17 percent have received all three doses in the regimen, said researchers.
A study published earlier this month in the New England Journal of Medicine found that the HPV vaccine could prevent 90 percent of genital warts in men, and the vaccine has also been approved against anal cancer in men and women.
Harper said she was not recommending the general population get the HPV vaccine because research has not yet established its effectiveness past five to eight years for cervical cancer.
"We know from all of the very good modeling studies that have been done throughout the world that if the vaccine does not last for a minimum of 15 years, cervical cancer will not be prevented, it will only be postponed," she said.
For now, Harper and fellow presenter Bonnie Halpern-Felsher of the University of California San Francisco recommended that patients discuss HPV with their doctors.
"If you talk to health care providers and certainly parents and other educators, they are not talking to teens about oral sex, period," said Halpern-Felsher, who has studied teenagers' attitudes and sexual behaviors.
"Teens really have no idea that oral sex is related to any outcome like STIs (sexually transmitted infections), HPV, chlamydia, and so on."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110221/ts_alt_afp/healthuscancer

[Seshmeister]

I'm surprised you are publicising this.

[Blaze]

Why is that, Sesh?

[sadaist]

Just more ammunition for the woman who doesn't want to suck your dick. Add this to her rotation of excuses.

[Seshmeister]

You misread.

It's usually men giving oral to women that get this.

[ODShowtime]

Of course eating pussy is dangerous... I like it. Every single fucking thing in the world that I like is dangerous.

Peanut Butter M&Ms
cocaine
bourbon
loud heavy metal
pills
drunk driving
whores
red meat
cigarettes


the list goes on and on...

[sadaist]

Of course eating pussy is dangerous...

Not if you have them de-clawed first.




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[Coyote]

I will not change my diet in light of this bullshit!

[Dan]

Cheers To Pie.:D

[Nitro Express]

If eating pussy is what kills me, then I will go happy.

[Blaze]

No Eddie metal geetar picks jokes yet? :hitch:

[hideyoursheep]

So THAT'S the shit that killed Elvis!

[Terry]

Yeah, well, you know what?

I ain't gonna stop eating pussy.

Just like I haven't stopped eating eggs and red meat.

Still drinkin' whiskey.

Still smoking cigarettes.

I take no medications. Don't even have a physician. Go to the dentist 2x a year.

I feel great.

You know what? I may well end up getting cancer. However, since I don't expect to live forever I'm not gonna live like some kind of ocd freak totally scared about everything in the big, bad world.

I dig life, but life'll kill ya'. If I can make it another ten years, that'll be fine. At that point, I'll be skirting the edges of the adult diaper/ mandatory viagra age set. I'd just as soon not live beyond the point where I can no longer control my bowels and can't get an erection without the aid of a pill.

[hambon4lif]

I've made out with quite a few women that were bi. Does that mean I'm gonna die faster from second-hand pussy?
Where does the insanity end?

[lesfunk]

Ellen DeGeneres is shitting her pants right now

[TFM_Dale]

I gave up smoking, fuck this news report!

[fifth element]

and the women of the world say...thank goodness their men ignore outrageous reports like this one!!!!!!

[GO-SPURS-GO]

"Oral sex linked to cancer risk"

That doesn’t surprise me! My wife is a nursing manager at the Woman’s Specialty Unit (OBGYN) located in the Methodist Hospital. She goes to cancer seminars all the time and she comes back with all these pamphlets. I read in one of them that female cancers, like ovarian, cervical, etc… could be linked to women who like to double dip. Women who like to stick vibrators or penises into their rectum and then insert them into their vagina are more likely to get those types of cancers than women who don’t because of all the bacteria in their rectum.

And wearing a condom doesn’t really do much good. There’s a thin lining that separates the rectum from the vagina, the lining has little holes, and the more you stretch (anal sex) the lining the bigger the holes become, causing bacteria to leak into the vagina.

[Nitro Express]

One hole is for shitting and one hole is for fucking sayeth the Lord.

[fifth element]

One hole is for shitting and one hole is for fucking sayeth the Lord.

where, exactly, in the Bible might that quote be found?

just wanted to check context, etc......

[ThrillsNSpills]

[Kristy]

You misread.

It's usually men giving oral to women that get this.

HPV from a man as a cause of cervical cancer is more of a threat, if anything.

[hambon4lif]

If lapping up vulva nectar from the tap is going to kill me, then so be it!

There are worse ways to go.......

[Blaze]

HPV from a man as a cause of cervical cancer is more of a threat, if anything.

Half of men may have HPV infections: study

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"We found that there is a high proportion of men who have genital HPV infections. At enrollment, it was 50 percent," said Giuliano, whose study appears online in the journal Lancet.

The team also found that the rate at which men acquire new HPV infections is very similar to women.

And they found that about 6 percent of men per year will get a new HPV 16 infection, the strain that is known for causing cervical cancer in women and other cancers in men.

Vaccines made by Merck & Co and GlaxoSmithKline both offer protection against this strain of HPV.

"The biology seems to be very similar (to women)," Giuliano said in a telephone interview.

"What is different is men seem to have high prevalence of genital HPV infections throughout their lifespans."
She said it appears that women are better able to clear an HPV infection, especially as they age, but men do not appear to have this same ability.

{...}

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110301/hl_nm/us_cancer_vaccine

[CROWBAR]

where, exactly, in the Bible might that quote be found?

just wanted to check context, etc......

Where's JC when ya need him...verily.

:biggrin:

[fifth element]

Where's JC when ya need him...verily.

:biggrin:

lol....no kidding, since Nitro does not seem to be responding...lolol :biggrin:

[Blaze]

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.
To contact the reporter on this story: Robert Langreth in New York at rlangreth@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Reg Gale at rgale5@bloomberg.net

[ashstralia]

unfortunately, life is a 100% fatal sexually transmitted disease.:)

[FORD]

Now pussy gives you cancer too?

Fuck, what's the point of living anymore :(

[hambon4lif]

I love the way they look
I love the way they smell
I love the way they feel
I love the way they taste

I was born by the pussy, and I'll die by the pussy!

Every other way is a worse way to go.

I really, really don't care.

[Dan]

How Very Rude.:D

[sadaist]

I love the way they look
I love the way they smell
I love the way they feel
I love the way they taste

I was born by the pussy, and I'll die by the pussy!

Every other way is a worse way to go.

I really, really don't care.

I'd have to put asterisks next to your 4 loves there friend. I've seen my share that I did not love the way they looked, smelled, felt or....actually after the first 3 misses I didn't get to the tasting part.

[Dan]

Spend 9 Months Getting Out Of It And The Rest Of Your Life Getting Back In.:hitch:

[SunisinuS]

I refuse to read this news article or this thread.

[Dan]

Fag.:D

[fifth element]

it seems to me that "case studies" come up w/ cancer cases surrounding anything and everything that people enjoy.

live, laugh, love.....every day,
for eventually all of us will die.


we might as well go happily

[SunisinuS]

it seems to me that "case studies" come up w/ cancer cases surrounding anything and everything that people enjoy.

live, laugh, love.....every day,
for eventually all of us will die.


we might as well go happily


May I lick your twat with full knowledge and consent?

[Blaze]

it seems to me that "case studies" come up w/ cancer cases surrounding anything and everything that people enjoy.

live, laugh, love.....every day,
for eventually all of us will die.


we might as well go happily

Actually HPV is quite real. And now has a vaccine. However, the article states that men will be the main carrier of the cancer.


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.

Information is not a bad thing. There will always be promiscuous people for promiscuous people. Making an informed choice is something all should do, or at least strive for. People enter the "dating" world for various reasons. Partner selection and/or limitation is not only for young persons. There are all kinds of self-inflicted disease. even traveling will lend you toward illness (and bugs hahaha), Nevertheless, if you are wearing a rubber to have sexual intercourse that may not be safe enough behavior.

Many people choose unhealthy lifestyles that is just a fact. But like smoking, which I do, this effects another person( or people) health.

If you want to gorge that is your choice. I look at it as like being out of shape by choice. Most people can choose to eat healthy and exercise, but choose not to.

Myself, I don't see promiscuity in a male (or female) as alluring.

[Blaze]

Hmmm will HPV also be found to be spread by mutual masturbation. Will dry humping be next thing found to have HPV risk?
Ohhh Noooeeesss! Can it be gotten by shaking hands??? My msyophobia is now kicking in. I should really wear gloves in public. See there was a reason why our grandmothers wore gloves when out and about. :peep:

[ThrillsNSpills]

http://www.rotharmy.com/forums/showthread.php?61729-Oral-sex-linked-to-cancer-risk

didja forget Blazy

[Blaze]

http://www.rotharmy.com/forums/showthread.php?61729-Oral-sex-linked-to-cancer-risk

didja forget Blazy
Yea, I did. Disregard the post. Everyone please screw like bunnies and send pics! :flame: ;)

[clarathecarrot]

it seems to me that "case studies" come up w/ cancer cases surrounding anything and everything that people enjoy.

live, laugh, love.....every day,
for eventually all of us will die.


we might as well go happily

Nude, that's the good naked. my new... -Bumper- -Sticker- ,,,Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

Hickory, Dickory,.. DOK! Ohhhhhhhhhhhh!

[ThrillsNSpills]

[ThrillsNSpills]

wash your pie

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[chefcraig]

wash your pie

Fairly benign, right?

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Yet upon closer inspection...:headlights:

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[Nitro Express]

If you got cancer from eating Bobbie Brown's cherrie pie at least you would die happy.

[Nitro Express]

Hot Tuna pie.

[Nitro Express]

You don't eat a big muff pie but you can plug into it.

[sadaist]

You don't eat a big muff pie but you can plug into it.



Many credit Microsoft, but pussy is the original plug-n-play.

[fifth element]

May I lick your twat with full knowledge and consent?

i believe you already know the answer to that question

[Nickdfresh]

Isn't there a vaccine (for men) for this or some shit like that? :headlights: