- The US and UK are suffering a throat cancer ‘epidemic’ — and experts point to oral sex as the culprit.
- Dr Hisham Mehanna, from the UK’s University of Birmingham, said 70 percent of cases of throat cancer are caused by human papillomavirus (HPV), a normally harmless virus that is spread sexually and has been linked to multiple forms of cancers.
- Dr Mehanna said people with multiple oral sex partners have an up to nine-fold increased risk of throat cancer.
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Oral Sex Fueling ‘Epidemic’ Of Throat Cancers
FILE - This microscope image made available by the National Cancer Institute Center for Cancer Research in 2015 shows human colon cancer cells with the nuclei stained red. Cancer is a disease of the genome, or full set of instructions for running cells, that occurs when changes in a person’s DNA cause cells to grow and divide uncontrollably. (NCI Center for Cancer Research via AP)
