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A rise in oral sex may be pushing up HPV infection rates in men, along with head and neck cancers caused by the virus.
Percentage of tonsil cancers in the U.S. that are linked with the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV). While overall rates of head and neck cancers have declined, the rate of cancers of the tonsil and base of the tongue — which are most likely to test positive for HPV — have risen in recent decades. [...]
According to a commentary published this week in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), despite a slight overall decrease in head and neck cancers worldwide, there has been a recent surge in one particular form of the disease—oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma—that may be due to the spread of the human papillomavirus (HPV) through oral sex. Dr. [...]
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