Posted on 12/12/2002 8:13:17 AM PST by Sangamon Kid
Oral sex linked to cancer of the mouth
By Sarah-Kate Templeton
New research to be published next year will provide powerful evidence that oral sex can cause mouth cancer.
Doctors who first suggested a form of mouth cancer could be linked to the same sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer have found more data to back their controversial theory. Two years ago, the group from Johns Hopkins University in the US published a paper suggesting the human papilloma virus (HPV), the cause of most cervical cancer, can also cause mouth cancer.
A new study, to be published in six months' time, will confirm this research, according to Dr Maura Gillison, an oncologist and member of the Johns Hopkins group. The news comes as Scottish mouth cancer experts are calling for research to be done here into the suspected link with oral sex.
David Soutar, president of the British Association of Head and Neck Oncologists, said: 'We were involved in a pilot study which suggested that this is certainly something that we should look into.
'It should be investigated further, particularly in people who don't have any of the risk factors such as smoking and drinking.
'One of the things that has interested me over the past 15 years is the increase in the number of women with oral cancer. It used to be five men to one woman but it is now about two men to one woman. What we do not know is whether this is all down to smoking.
'When I see the increase in women with oral cancer I think oral sex has to be one of the causes. We also have to find out why the age group suffering from oral cancer is becoming younger. Ideally, we would want to look at the under-45s.'
Mr Soutar, a consultant plastic surgeon at Canniesburn Hospital and the Nuffield Hospital, both in Glasgow, says it is difficult to find people willing to discuss their sexual behaviour, but says we have to consider the possibility sexually transmitted viruses are one of the causes.
Finding out whether HPV is a cause of mouth cancer is all the more pressing now that new treatments are being developed to fight cervical cancer. A vaccine to stop cervical cancer could become available within five years and doctors believe a similar vaccine could protect against some oral cancers.
The vaccine works by boosting the immune system against strains of HPV. The vaccine against cervical cancer will be targeted at girls of about 12 or 13, before they become sexually active and vulnerable to HPV.
But Soutar warns that, unlike cervical cancer where most forms of the disease are caused by HPV, the sexually transmitted virus could only be responsible for less than 20% of mouth cancer cases. He said targeting a vaccine would therefore be more difficult.
'If we could identify the sub-group this would be of benefit. We know smoking and drinking is probably the cause in 80% of cases so we couldn't use it in the same way as the vaccine against cervical cancer. This would only be a small proportion of those who have oral cancer.'
In the past decade in Scotland there has been an almost 50% increase in oral cancer among under-45s, and in the last 40 years a fourfold increase in younger patients suffering from it. Oral cancer affects 3000 people in the UK each year and the problem is worse north of the border.
www.omfsaboutface.co.uk/ aware.htm
www.cancerresearchuk.org
I'm still trying to figure out how calling for the death penalty for gays fits in with the 'new' FR.....
Hmmm wonder if the FR Taliban knows it's ok to have sex with your Slave Girls... according to the OT, at least...
Yeah, but can we use a warm loaf of bread?
Ok. Now that's just wrong...
You're kidding. I must be odd then... Giving and receiving are both fun :)
A conventioneer's wife sitting at the restaurant bar on Lee Circle a couple months ago ended up (don't ask me how ...) explaining to me and my bartender friend that she'd gotten her new house in San Jose by promising her husband oral sex once a week for three years.
She was a really nice woman ... fulltime mother, great figure, funny and -- best of all -- born in Shreveport, Louisiana and admittedly so glad to be the hell out of California and among real folks in New Orleans who have no problems chit-chatting with strangers that she spilled somewhat after a round or two.
But I have to admit, it was an utterly depressing scenario. I cannot for the life of me imagine bargaining and keeping track thus. (His stomach was upset -- that's why she was at the bar -- and his flu the week before meant she owed him two at the moment.)
"And then that's it!" ... she was counting down the weeks until she was done for good.
No wonder so many men around here think -- and speak -- of their wives as money-grubbing whores who won't put out unless the price is right. War-weary prostitutes, as it were, who'll rally to go the extra mile but only to get a house or some diamonds for the annual Christ's Mass celebration.
She just likes toasted bread too much, what can I say.
I figure if men had warts lasered off their penises as often as women have warts lasered out of their vaginas, off their cervixes and from the backs of their throats ... they might realize that there may be more to this than some "Biblical" interpretations about oral sex.
Contrary to the nature of most posts on the subject (or on this thread) ... what happens between two married people is intensely and properly PRIVATE.
Ideally, neither runs around copulating or having oral intercourse with a dozen or more partners before thinking to switch their physical, mental, emotional and spiritual gears and pledge themselves to the One spouse.
At the heart of the spread of this disease is promiscuity, plain and simple.
"Sexual liberation" is a mirage. (That's why the State's so intent on ensuring this particular freedom ... even ruling that for-profit porn of child sex is "Free Speech" if the images -- if not the ensuing intended ejaculations -- have been properly faked.)
Restraint is the better part of freedom. It's restraint by which we keep open and enjoy the optimum array of Choices.
AIDS, warts, herpes, pregnancy, abortion and the emotional and mental scars (particularly for women who, as young girls, are absolutely encouraged to eschew their natural feminine modesty) limit a person.
What makes you think they're miserable, Bella?
("They" being anyone who doesn't partake of our Culture of Death's take on sex ... non-procreative, strictly recreational and increasingly perverse on a playing field of Sadean sado-masochism and rank misogyny.)
To be honest, I'm not big on being "judgmental". Where sex is concerned, however, I find far more of the Judging being done -- and in an absolutely personal fashion -- by those who ridicule and attack anyone who counters the Conventional Wisdom on sex and relationships as espoused and specifically protected by our evil government and their interlock of image-builders, experts and "scientists" like that criminal pedophile and grotesque pervert Kinsey.
Cough. Cough.
Sorry you find oral sex between a couple to be the "culture of death". Now, go out and rub your Mary statue, you'll feel better.
LOL, hypocrisy is everywhere...particularly when none one is home, or they're on business trips.
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