<p class="mol-para-with-font">The US and UK are <a href="https://Slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=suffering">suffering</a> a throat <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/news/cancer/index.html" id="mol-84a89890-e458-11ed-bf20-4f30777ba9aa" target="_self">cancer</a> 'epidemic' _ and experts point to oral sex as the culprit. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Dr Hisham Mehanna, from the UK's University of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/news/birmingham/index.html" id="mol-84b2d1c0-e458-11ed-bf20-4f30777ba9aa" target="_self">Birmingham</a>, said 70 percent of cases of throat cancer are caused by human papillomavirus (<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/news/hpv/index.html" id="mol-84a9d110-e458-11ed-bf20-4f30777ba9aa" target="_self">HPV</a>), a normally harmless virus that is spread sexually and has been linked to multiple forms of cancers.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Dr Mehanna said people with multiple oral sex partners have an up to nine-fold increased risk of throat cancer.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">There is a vaccine for HPV, <a style="font-weight: bold;" class="class" href="/health/article-11990473/Shockingly-high-number-Americans-dont-realize-common-STD-cause-cancer.html" target="_self">but only 54 percent of Americans</a> have received it _ far below the 80 percent figure believed to be a threshold for population safety. </p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="style"> <div class="mol-img"> <div class="image-wrap"> <img id="i-c112106ad2f7b732" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" website height="423" width="634" alt="Doctors have warned that HPV ฟ the world's most common STD ฟ is the leading risk factor for throat cancer in men and women (stock)" class="blkBorder img-share" style="max-width:100%" /> </div> <noscript> <img id="i-c112106ad2f7b732" website height="423" width="634" alt="Doctors have warned that HPV ฟ the world's most common STD ฟ is the leading risk factor for throat cancer in men and women (stock)" class="blkBorder img-share" /> </noscript> </div> <p class="imageCaption">Doctors have warned that HPV _ the world's most common STD _ is the leading risk factor for throat cancer in men and women (stock)</p></div><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="style"> <div class="mol-img"> <div class="image-wrap"> <img id="i-47580a54095f5e57" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" website height="419" width="634" alt="This graph shows how the number of new cases of throat cancer has ticked upward in the US since 1999. It is rising by about one percent a year in women and three percent in men" class="blkBorder img-share" style="max-width:100%" /> </div> <noscript> <img id="i-47580a54095f5e57" website height="419" width="634" alt="This graph shows how the number of new cases of throat cancer has ticked upward in the US since 1999. It is rising by about one percent a year in women and three percent in men" class="blkBorder img-share" /> </noscript> </div> <p class="imageCaption">This graph shows how the number of new cases of throat cancer has ticked upward in the US since 1999.<br><br>It is rising by about one percent a year in women and three percent in men</p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">Dr Mehanna wrote in <a style="font-weight: bold;" class="class" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" website Conversation</a><span style="font-size: 16px;">: 'Over the past two decades, there has been a <a href="https://www.britannica.com/search?query=rapid%20increase">rapid increase</a> in throat cancer in the west, to the extent that some have called it an epidemic.</span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'This has been due to a large rise in a specific type of throat cancer called oropharyngeal cancer.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Oropharyngeal cancer is the most common type of throat cancer.<br><br>It appears in the tonsils and back of the throat. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Doctors consider HPV infection to be the biggest risk factor for developing the disease. </p><div class="mol-img-group floatRHS" style="style"> <div class="mol-img"> <div class="image-wrap"> <img id="i-2e5c7f7ea19fcfbd" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" website height="306" width="306" alt="Dr Hisham Mehanna is a surgeon at the University of Birmingham, UK. He gave a warning over the cancer." class="blkBorder img-share" style="max-width:100%" /> </div> <noscript> <img id="i-2e5c7f7ea19fcfbd" website height="306" width="306" alt="Dr Hisham Mehanna is a surgeon at the University of Birmingham, UK. He gave a warning over the cancer." class="blkBorder img-share" /> </noscript> </div> <p class="imageCaption">Dr Hisham Mehanna is a surgeon at the University of Birmingham, UK.<br><br>He gave a warning over the cancer.</p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">Dr Mehanna continued: 'HPV is sexually transmitted. For oropharyngeal cancer, the main risk factor is the number of lifetime sexual partners, especially oral sex.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'Those with six or more lifetime oral-sex partners are 8.5 times more likely to develop oropharyngeal cancer than those who do not practice oral sex.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">More than 50,000 cases of oral or oropharyngeal cancer are diagnosed in the US each year, causing more than 10,000 annual deaths.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The number of cases is growing, however, up to 1.3 percent a year in women and 2.8 percent in men, according to the <a style="font-weight: bold;" class="class" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" website Cancer Society</a>. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Doctors have found that oral sex is the biggest risk factor for them _ outpacing smoking, alcohol consumption and <a href=https://Xxxvintagexxx.com>fetishpornosex.com</a> an unhealthy diet. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">This is because the acts can lead to an HPV infection at the back of the throat or near the tonsil. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">These infections go away on their own in most cases but sometimes can persist and cause cancer.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Scientists at NYU Langone estimate that as much as 70 percent of throat cancer cases are caused by HPV infections.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">In the UK, head and neck cancers combined are responsible for more than 12,000 cases and 4,000 deaths per year. </p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="style"> <div class="mol-img"> <div class="image-wrap"> <img id="i-40274f3a3f042fa1" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" website height="416" width="634" alt="This data shows that in the UK cases of throat cancer have been trending upward, just like in the US" class="blkBorder img-share" style="max-width:100%" /> </div> <noscript> <img id="i-40274f3a3f042fa1" website height="416" width="634" alt="This data shows that in the UK cases of throat cancer have been trending upward, just like in the US" class="blkBorder img-share" /> </noscript> </div> <p class="imageCaption">This data shows that in the UK cases of throat cancer have been trending upward, just like in the US</p></div><div class="art-ins mol-factbox floatRHS health" data-version="2" id="mol-4f403e00-e445-11ed-9036-ab85a6f124c3" website sex is fueling an 'epidemic' of throat cancers in the US<img src="https://freestocks.org/fs/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/wild_rose_bush_coming_to_life_7-1024x1536.jpg" style="max-width:400px;float:right;padding:10px 0px 10px 10px;border:0px;">
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