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Cunnilingual Affliction 2 (HPV)  

Teyjj 56M
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7/2/2014 2:23 pm

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7/4/2014 7:15 pm
Cunnilingual Affliction 2 (HPV)

I just read this article dated 7/2/14, written by Matthew Herper, (Why Thousands Of Men Like… Are Getting Throat Cancer).

In the article it is said that 70-90% of head and neck cancer, worldwide, are caused by HPV (the Human Papilloma Virus), more than those caused by smoking and drinking, especially since 2004.

Below is part of the same article, for anyone interested:
How do you get HPV cancer?

HPV is sexually transmitted. It’s mainly known as a cause of cervical cancer, which is what happens when it infects women. But men can get it by performing cunnilingus. It’s also possible, though less likely, that it can be transmitted by kissing.

Eighty percent of sexually active people between the ages of 14 and 44 have had oral sex with an opposite sex partner.

Researchers estimate that HPV throat cancer in men will be more common than cervical cancer in women in the U.S.

Most strains of HPV do not cause cancer, either in the throat or the cervix. And most HPV infections are cleared by the body. But in a minority of cases, perhaps 10%, they persist. If the strain is of the right variety – for instance, the HPV 16 strain of the virus – this infection can eventually lead to cancer. When it comes to throat cancer, this process takes decades.

The good news is that throat cancer caused by HPV is far less deadly than the old type that resulted from chronic tobacco use and drinking. Some researchers have cited data that it is 80% curable.

In a series of 500 patients who were early in their disease conducting at Sinai, more than 90% were still cancer free five years after surgery. And in that study Sinai was deliberately using less invasive surgery and skipping chemotherapy and radiation in the interest of sparing men side effects.

One hope is that the vaccines developed to prevent HPV infection in women – Gardasil, from Merck , and Cervarix, from GlaxoSmithKline – could prevent HPV infection in the throat and, therefore, cancer later on. But there’s no way to prove this. Drug companies funded studies showing the vaccines prevented the formation of precancerous lesions in the cervix, but there’s no way to do something similar in the throat.

As I said before, there’s no way to know right now whether… illness is caused by HPV – although given what that would mean for his prognosis, I hope it is. What we do know is that this virus is likely to give cancer to a lot of men who look a lot like him in the years to come.”
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