Recent studies suggest that the US and the UK are currently experiencing a huge rise in cases of throat cancer, and many experts have pointed out that the cause could be oral sex.
Oh boy…
Dr. Hisham Mehanna of the University of Birmingham in the UK claims that 70% of all throat cancer cases are caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). Although HPV is a typically harmless virus, it can be transmitted sexually and has been linked to various forms of cancer. Dr. Mehanna further states that people who engage in oral sex with multiple partners are at a heightened risk of developing throat cancer by up to nine times.
That’s actually really scary.
Daily Mail reported that Dr. Mehanna said people with multiple oral sex partners have an up to nine-fold increased risk of throat cancer.
There is a vaccine for HPV, but only 54 percent of Americans have received it — far below the 80 percent figure believed to be a threshold for population safety.
Dr. Mehanna wrote in The Conversation: 'Over the past two decades, there has been a rapid increase in throat cancer in the west, to the extent that some have called it an epidemic.
'This has been due to a large rise in a specific type of throat cancer called oropharyngeal cancer.'
Oropharyngeal cancer is the most common type of throat cancer. It appears in the tonsils and back of the throat.
Doctors consider HPV infection to be the biggest risk factor for developing the disease.
Many critics believe this is just a “scare tactic” to get more people to take the vaccine, while others think it’s a warning that everyone should take seriously.
