{"id":2702,"date":"2007-05-12T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2007-05-12T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-12T17:51:00","slug":"bad-news-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2007\/05\/12\/13\/51\/bad-news-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad News Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

A common virus, believed to be transmitted during oral sex, is the cause of a rare throat cancer in both men and women … Patients whose blood or saliva samples indicated that they had prior HPV infection were 32 times more likely to develop oropharnygeal cancer … those people who had had more than six oral sex partners were 8.6 times more likely to develop the HPV-linked cancer..<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The public health implications of our findings are underscored by the annual increases in the incidence of tonsillar and base-of-tongue cancers in the United States since 1973. The widespread oral sexual practices among adolescents may be a contributing factor in this increase. Our results and those of other studies provide a rationale for HPV vaccination in both boys and girls \u00e2\u20ac\u201d since oropharyngeal cancers occur in men and women. If vaccination is as effective in preventing oral HPV-16 infection as it is in preventing cervical infection, a substantial reduction in the incidence of oropharyngeal cancer in vaccinated populations would provide the ultimate evidence of causality.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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