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Oral sex is causing an oral cancer epidemic in men by outwitting natural defenses
By Marie McCullough
The Philadelphia Inquirer
March 08, 2018 10:09 AM
Updated 1 hour 24 minutes ago
PHILADELPHIA
Five years ago, when actor Michael Douglas candidly revealed that his throat cancer was linked to having oral sex, two things happened.
He made headlines that mortified his family. And he helped publicize the fact that a pervasive, sexually transmitted virus called HPV was unleashing an epidemic of oral cancer among men.
Since then, scientists have made headway in figuring out why HPV, the human papillomavirus, has this glaring gender bias. Men are four times more likely than women to be diagnosed with oral cancer, a hard-to-detect, hard-to-treat disease that has overtaken cervical cancer as the most common HPV-related malignancy in the United States...
Oral sex is causing an oral cancer epidemic in men by outwitting natural defenses
By Marie McCullough
The Philadelphia Inquirer
March 08, 2018 10:09 AM
Updated 1 hour 24 minutes ago
PHILADELPHIA
Five years ago, when actor Michael Douglas candidly revealed that his throat cancer was linked to having oral sex, two things happened.
He made headlines that mortified his family. And he helped publicize the fact that a pervasive, sexually transmitted virus called HPV was unleashing an epidemic of oral cancer among men.
Since then, scientists have made headway in figuring out why HPV, the human papillomavirus, has this glaring gender bias. Men are four times more likely than women to be diagnosed with oral cancer, a hard-to-detect, hard-to-treat disease that has overtaken cervical cancer as the most common HPV-related malignancy in the United States...