Men face higher risk of cancers linked to oral s*x

HPV-driven cancers of the head and neck rise along with the number of oral sex patners, researchers said friday at the american Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting in the US capital.
Nearly two out of three of these oral cancers in the United States and most western nation are caused by infection with the HPV 16 strain of the virus, and incidence of cancer is on the rise in recent years, said Gypsyamber D'Souza, who teaches epidemiology at hohns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Middle aged white men are at particularly high risk compared to other races.
she said her research shows that youths are engaging in oral sex at increasingly young ages, compared to past generation.
"Our research shows that for men, the number of oral partners as that number increases, the risk of an oral HPVinfection increases' she told reporters.
But with women, the number of sexual partners does not appear tp rase the risk.
"Comparing men and women with the same number of sexual partners, men is much ore likely to become infected with orl HPV than a woman"
Furthermore, women who have a greater number of vaginal sex. partners appear to face a lower risk HPV infection, she said.
But men do not seem to have equally robust immune responses
"Men are not more likely to be infected with oral HPV infection than woman, but our research shos that once you become infected, men are less likely to clear this infection than women further contributing for the canver risk"
HPV infection iquite common, and most people clear the virus within a year or two, she said.
In some cases,however,HPV does not go awayamd can lead to cellular changes in the mouth and throat, which enventually become cancerous.
Oral s*x may raise the risk of head and neck cancer by 22 oercent, according to a study published january in the journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
This type of cancer has risen 225 percent in the last two decades.
The US Centers for Disease control and Prevention (CDC) urges HPV vaccination for all pre-teen boys and girls so they can be protected against the nfection before they become sexually active.

Men are twice as likely as women to get cancer of the mouth and throat linked to the human papillomavirus, or HPV, one of the most common sexually transmitted infections, researchers say.

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Men are twice as likely as women to get cancer of the mouth and throat linked to the human papillomavirus, or HPV, one of the most common sexually transmitted infections, researchers say.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/02/men-face-higher-risk-of-cancers-linked-to-oral-sex/