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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 06:12 PM
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The Oral Sex Cancer Connection
Source: ABC

While most HPV infections clear on their own, there is an alarming surge of oral cancers linked to the virus.

Johns Hopkins researchers reported in a study published in February in the Journal of Clinical Oncology that between 1973 and 2004 the incidence of HPV-related oral cancers among people in their 40s nearly doubled. Today more than 34,000 people have oral cancer and 39 percent of those cases are related to HPV, according to data from the American Cancer Society.

"These are patients that are young. They are in their 30s and 40s. They are nonsmokers, and they don't drink alcohol excessively. And every time we look we are able to find HPV-16 in their tissue, in the biopsy specimen," said Dr. Robert Haddad, a Dana Farber Cancer Institute head and neck surgeon.

While scientists don't know yet how sexual orientation factors into the equation, they know the No. 1 risk factor is a high number of sexual partners. So straight or gay, the more partners, the more risk.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/story?id=6034244&page=1


Can we get off of smokers' backs, now? The YouPorn generation is going to be an equal, if not greater strain on the budget, I predict.
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Jed Dilligan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 06:13 PM
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1. That sucks!
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tbyg52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 06:17 PM
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5. Somebody had to say it..... ;-> nt
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H2O Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 06:14 PM
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2. Oral sex
and smoking don't mix.
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 06:33 PM
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7. You're absolutely right, never put a sex organ in your mouth while sucking on a lit cigarette or
Edited on Wed Oct-15-08 06:34 PM by notadmblnd
put a lit cigarette in your mouth....
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 06:14 PM
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3. They're still smokers
They're just smokin' sausage and not ciggies. :shrug:
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RoccoR5955 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 06:15 PM
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4. That either sucks or blows...
Depending on your orientation.
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TankLV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 11:33 PM
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12. "blow" is just an expression - SUCK BABY SUCK!!!
Edited on Wed Oct-15-08 11:34 PM by TankLV
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texastoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 06:29 PM
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6. Bad news for BJ's?
And those who love them?

:shrug:
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Chemical Bill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 06:34 PM
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8. No more eating at the Y?!!?? n/t
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lutefisk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 06:38 PM
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9. and forget the box lunch, too....n/t
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EmperorHasNoClothes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 06:42 PM
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10. Well, that explains Tom Brokaw at least.
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TankLV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 11:32 PM
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11. sounds like the name of a band from the 60's...
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onager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 05:00 PM
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13. I sure hope this can be licked.
n/t
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