Dont let your girlfriends/wives read this article...

[DaRizzle]

Researchers suspect oral sex to blame for rise in tonsil cancer

The incidence of tonsil cancer has tripled in the city of Stockholm since the 1970s and doctors at the world-famous Karolinska Institute there think they know why.

Oral sex. Or perhaps French kissing. And changes in sexual behavior that took place 20 or 30 years ago, says Tina Dalianis, a professor of tumor virology at Karolinska.

Her research has directly linked the increase in tonsil cancers to the human papillomavirus (HPV). There are more than 100 different types of HPV, some of which cause cancer. One, for example, is responsible for 99.7% of all cervical cancers.

The study found that patients with HPV in their mouths are much more likely to get tonsil cancer than patients who don’t have it. In fact for patients who are HPV-positive, the rate of tonsil cancer has gone up seven times since the '70s, Dalianis says. It takes between 20 and 30 years for an HPV infection to result in cancer, so the people getting sick now were infected in the '70s and '80s.

“It’s an epidemic,” she says.

Prior to this, the greatest risk factor for tonsil cancer was drinking and smoking. As smoking rates have dropped, the number of tobacco-linked tonsil cancers has declined.

Researchers monitored everyone in the Stockholm area diagnosed with tonsil cancer between 2003 and 2007. Their study, recently published in the International Journal of Cancer, found that of 120 patients who got the cancer, at least 83 were HPV-positive.

Tonsil cancer is dangerous because it has almost no symptoms, so many people don’t seek medical attention until it has spread to their lymph nodes and is much harder to treat.

“If they have a lump in their throat, especially if it’s on one side and it doesn’t go away with antibiotics, they should see a doctor,” Dalianis says.

One bright spot is that a vaccine against the cancer-causing HPV16 virus has been available since 2006 and is now being given to many girls between the ages of 10 and 12 to prevent cervical cancer. Dalianis hopes that it may help prevent tonsil cancers as well.

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[MARIS61]

No findings which would support her "suspicions" are presented.

If anything, it appears likely the downturn in smoking may have made the mouths more susceptible to HPV taking hold.

I'm fairly certain oral sex and kissing have been going steady all along.

 

[jwhoops11]

No findings which would support her "suspicions" are presented.

If anything, it appears likely the downturn in smoking may have made the mouths more susceptible to HPV taking hold.

I'm fairly certain oral sex and kissing have been going steady all along.

I wonder, does anyone know if theirs been a lowering in the percentage of marriages since the study began?

....Becuase we all know that when a couple marries the oral sex ends. Perhaps that's the reason??

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

who gets head from their wife or girlfriend?

 

[Shooter]

No findings which would support her "suspicions" are presented.

If anything, it appears likely the downturn in smoking may have made the mouths more susceptible to HPV taking hold.

I'm fairly certain oral sex and kissing have been going steady all along.

Did you even read the article, or understand it? The increase in the human papillomavirus (HPV) has been traced back to the 1970's, when sexual behavior loosened generally in Europe and the western world. Prior to that time, oral sex didn't put you at risk for cancer because you probably weren't carrying HPV in your mouth.

So yes, oral sex and kissing have been around for a long time, but since the 1970's it's been tainted with an extra risk.

 

[Anima]

No findings which would support her "suspicions" are presented.

If anything, it appears likely the downturn in smoking may have made the mouths more susceptible to HPV taking hold.

I'm fairly certain oral sex and kissing have been going steady all along.

Oral sex has risen sharply over the past several years, and it's continues to steadily rise as an increasing number of adolescences are engaging in the act.

http://www.impactlab.com/2006/09/04/huge-rise-in-teen-oral-sex/

 

[The_Lillard_King]

So if I understand this thread . . . married woman don't give blowjobs, but adolescences are doing it more and more.

I wonder why so many men are attracted to the "younger population" . . . I might have found the answer.

 

[Shooter]

Oral sex has risen sharply over the past several years, and it's continues to steadily rise as an increasing number of adolescences are engaging in the act.

You are also missing the point of the article. The women who are now coming down with this type of cancer contracted it over twenty years ago. It takes at least that long for the cancer to show up.

Girls may be engaging in oral sex more today than they used to, but that's irrelevant to the topic at hand.

 

[Shooter]

So if I understand this thread . . . married woman don't give blowjobs, but adolescences are doing it more and more.

It's young girls who are doing it more and more. And the word you were looking for is "adolescents."

 

[The_Lillard_King]

It's young girls who are doing it more and more. And the word you were looking for is "adolescents."

Thanks for the correction. What makes you think young girls are doing it more and more?. . . time to open up your mind a little.

 

[theprunetang]

Let's just hope HCP's sister doesn't read this. Half the board would lose a good booty call.

 

[Shooter]

Thanks for the correction. What makes you think young girls are doing it more and more?. . .

Because both of the articles posted indicated that. Go back and take another look.