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Going Downtown Causes Cancer - 5/10/2007 8:48:00 AM

selfbnd411

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Here's another good excuse for not wanting to go downtown

Rare throat cancer linked to oral sex

May 11, 2007

A RARE cancer in the back of the throat is "strongly associated" with a virus transmitted during oral sex, US researchers believe.

A study of 100 women diagnosed with cancers at the back of the throat, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, has linked human papillomavirus (HPV) with throat cancer. It concluded oral HPV infection was associated with oropharyngeal cancer among people with or without the other risk factors of tobacco and alcohol use.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/rare-throat-cancer-linked-to-oral-sex/2007/05/10/1178390469740.html

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RE: Going Downtown Causes Cancer - 5/10/2007 8:54:50 AM

mistoferin

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Even scarier is that HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease in this country and there are estimates that say that 70 to 80 percent of all sexually active people will become infected at some point in their lives.

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