Posted on 02/13/2016 10:14:29 AM PST by BenLurkin
Nearly two out of three of these oral cancers in the United States and most western nations are caused by infection with the HPV 16 strain of the virus, and incidence of cancer is on the rise in recent years, said Gypsyamber D'Souza, who teaches epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Middle aged white men are at particularly high risk compared to other races.
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The reason may be that when women are first exposed to HPV vaginally, they mount an immune response that prevents them from getting an oral HPV infection, she said.
But men do not seem to have equally robust immune responses.
"Men are not only more likely to be infected with oral HPV infection than women, but our research shows that once you become infected, men are less likely to clear this infection than women, further contributing for the cancer risk."
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Apparently in the case of Michael Douglas, years of heavy drinking and smoking had nothing to do with getting oral cancer.
Yep, beat mine 9 years ago.
They called it an “occult primary” because they couldn’t trace the source.
4 years ago my doc agreed that was the likely cause, but they didn’t test for that 9 years ago.
Isn’t this what happened to Michael Douglas and he “blamed” it on his wife Catherine Zeta Jones?
IIRC, you’re right and I don’t think she took it too well...
Tongue condoms, perhaps?
Those vaccinations won’t be free. Is it a Carpet Tax?
None of us are getting out of here alive.
So, did she get checked out for HPV just to be sure?
The fact that you have to say your wife is “female” means we’ve lost the fight.
There are entirely too many jokes here on the tip of my tongue that would get me banned.
It’s White Males that have this problem.
Apparently they reciprocate out of Guilt and do the Deed.
Black Males generally don’t reciprocate and they don’t feel Guilty about it either. It’s a one way street with them. LOL
No, I don’t have a Link, I just know it to be a fact.
Gee, I got through that explanation without using the P word.
Neither do black women. Why do you think they have so many children?
....so then the dentist virgin said to his date, “yeah but those are the worst gums Ive ever seen”
Yep. Kinda the point.
Well, from personal experience I can say that isn’t necessarily the case. I think Laz would back me up on this.
I was young once and I discovered that Women of every description have many things in common, the first being that they are Women.
Well, that was the only thing that mattered to me anyway.
aaah...’splains why black women are always so angry
I too have the same experience,but training was necessary.
We are going to get in some big trouble here. I can hear the clutching of the Pearls as I type this. LOL
Well, I managed to get out of a few situations without being physically harmed.
I guess I was luckier than I realized at the time.
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