Report: Dumb Yankee's cancer risk is low

[Guns Guns Guns]

A virus spread by oral sex may cause more cases of throat cancer in men than smoking, a finding that spurred calls for a new large-scale test of a drug used against the infection.


Researchers examined 271 throat-tumor samples collected over 20 years ending in 2004 and found that the percentage of oral cancer linked to the human papilloma virus, or HPV, surged to 72 percent from about 16 percent, according to a report released yesterday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.


By 2020, the virus-linked throat tumors -- which mostly affected men -- will become more common than HPV-caused cervical cancer, the report found.


In a 2007 epidemiology study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that having a high number of oral or vaginal sex partners are risk factors for HPV-associated throat cancer.




http://webfarm.bloomberg.com/news/2...-virus-linked-throat-cancer-in-men-study.html

 

[Damocles]

I'm sure you can get Rick Perry to force all boys at age 12 to get inoculated.

 

[cancel2 2022]

I'm sure you can get Rick Perry to force all boys at age 12 to get inoculated.

I imagine some wimmin would consider it as poetic justice for men not having babies.

 

[Phantasmal]

All boys should get the vaccine. It will protect them as well as their future partners. No one should be forced, but it just makes a lot of sense. Carriers can pass it without ever knowing they are infected.

 

[Guns Guns Guns]

All boys should get the vaccine. It will protect them as well as their future partners. No one should be forced, but it just makes a lot of sense. Carriers can pass it without ever knowing they are infected.

Not to Dumb Yankee.

 

[Phantasmal]

Ahahahahah, so I have heard!

 

[Mott the Hoople]

All boys should get the vaccine. It will protect them as well as their future partners. No one should be forced, but it just makes a lot of sense. Carriers can pass it without ever knowing they are infected.

That depends entirely on the epidimeology. The numbers of men affected by this type of throat cancer are minute compared to the numbers of women who suffer from cervical cancer. Point being, if a HPPV vaccine is available for those who enjoy performing the fine art of fellatio....then it should be available to all genders.

Damo's comment though is both incensitive and silly based on the epidemeology. Either that or he's trolling.