Posted on 08/28/2007 12:39:58 PM PDT by pattyam
Study Links Increase in Oral Cancers in Men to HPV The rate of oral cancer in men under the age of 45 is rising and a new study links the increase to the human papillomavirus (HPV).
Although the overall incidence of head and neck cancers has fallen in the United States and the rate of oropharyngeal (tonsil and base of tongue) cancers is stagnant in females, it appears to be rising in younger men, according to a review published in the Oct. 1 issue of Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.
Cancers of the head and neck, which include cancers of the larynx, nasal passages/nose, oral cavity, pharynx and salivary glands, account for 3 percent of all newly diagnosed cancers in the U.S. But men are three times more likely to be diagnosed with these cancers than women, the new study concluded. ...
Of the estimated 45,000 new cases of head and neck cancers expected this year, approximately 10,000 are cancers of the pharynx (chiefly the oropharynx). Though the prognosis for these cancers is excellent when caught early, more than half of them are caught in the advanced stages when the prognosis is much worse, making prevention critical to saving lives, the authors said. ...
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Oral-genital and HAND-GENITAL transmission of some genital HPV types is possible and has been reported according to the Am. Cancer Society site.
"Cancers of the head and neck, which include cancers of the larynx, NASAL PASSAGES/NOSE, oral cavity, pharynx and salivary glands." Not cute after that! 8-(
Transmission of pathogens through friction-induced microscopic wounds on the delicate genital skin, during sex, is all that condoms can hinder, and NOT completely rule out.
The genitalia-to-hand mode of transmission should indeed have a good probability. People who rely on condoms during sex with multiple partners from a general population, and haven’t yet contracted a fatal illness, can count themselves lucky. Monogamy immensely reduces the chances of contracting a deadly STD, simply because of the drastic reduction of the applicable population, to just one partner. With monogamy, the risk is of that one person having the disease or not. With polygamy, it’s the same, multiplied several times over.
Like the Russian Roulette, take enough tries, and eventually that weapon is going go off.
See all the signs in restaurant bathrooms saying “Employees must wash hands”. To bad hand hygiene is not taught in sex ed classes.
Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), Herpes, Gonorrhea & Chlamydia have all been found in the EYE.
Did you see the recent article about HPV being found under fingernails?
1 in 300 with Chlamydia also have this in their eye.
According to data published in the journal Archives of Ophthalmology, herpes simplex keratitis affects up to 500,000 people in the United States. Each year, ocular herpes simplex virus is estimated to affect approximately 50,000 people in the United States, arising as acute primary disease in 20,000 people and as recurrent disease in an additional 28,000.
Then there is that commercial about fightmeningitis.com saying you can get this from “being close”. They too are selling a vaccine. Money making!
For the rest if you cannot be Godly can you at least be clean? “Cleanliness is next to godliness”
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Clearly, there must be some unstated co-factors involved.
Homosxual oral sex?
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