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Oral sex is causing an oral cancer epidemic in men by outwitting natural defenses
Sac Bee ^ | 3/8/2018 | Marie McCullough

Posted on 03/08/2018 2:39:41 PM PST by LiveFreeOrDie2001

Five years ago, when actor Michael Douglas candidly revealed that his throat cancer was linked to having oral sex, two things happened.

He made headlines that mortified his family. And he helped publicize the fact that a pervasive, sexually transmitted virus called HPV was unleashing an epidemic of oral cancer among men.

Since then, scientists have made headway in figuring out why HPV, the human papillomavirus, has this glaring gender bias. Men are four times more likely than women to be diagnosed with oral cancer, a hard-to-detect, hard-to-treat disease that has overtaken cervical cancer as the most common HPV-related malignancy in the United States.

To be sure, changes in sexual norms over the last few generations have played a role in this alarming trend. But research increasingly shows the real problem is something men have practically no control over: their immune response.

(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: hpv
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To: LiveFreeOrDie2001

Now, do I understand that men are eating a dangerous substance, maybe something that seems undercooked, or on fact raw? And I enjoy she’ll fish....


141 posted on 03/08/2018 5:15:46 PM PST by gathersnomoss
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To: originalbuckeye

And google the vaccine court to find out that you have no legal recource.


142 posted on 03/08/2018 5:15:51 PM PST by OregonRancher (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints)
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To: PresidentFelon

Whether the Break Up Text shows up or not, the next Lewinsky you were looking forward to is gone forever.


143 posted on 03/08/2018 5:19:20 PM PST by Kickass Conservative ( An Armed Society is a Polite Society. An Unarmed Society is North Korea.)
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To: ml/nj

Smh... The article isn’t about gays. How are so many people missing this? It is about men giving oral sex to their FEMALE partner.


144 posted on 03/08/2018 5:22:15 PM PST by softengine
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To: Texan5

Please be aware of the limitations of test results. For example....how old is the lab test...or how sensitive is it..or how many false negatives can be possible..Also be aware that as soon as presenting test results is very common..that someone is surely gonna counterfeit a lab report...not difficult with todays computers and printers.sorry bout the cynicism...but the world aint always pretty.


145 posted on 03/08/2018 5:24:21 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find)
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To: heterosupremacist

Douglas was being a smart ass when he said he had oral cancer and it was caused by him going down on his much younger beautiful wife. He had already admitted a couple years earlier he had tongue cancer. You can bet your bottom dollar it was caused by smoking.


146 posted on 03/08/2018 5:25:17 PM PST by NKP_Vet ("Man without God descends into madness")
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To: LiveFreeOrDie2001

Can’t be. The MSM/CDC/GOV was trying to tell us that HPV was strictly a womyn’s health issue to take debate out of it and tell men to STFU.


147 posted on 03/08/2018 5:27:12 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: slumber1

.Michael Douglas candidly revealed that his throat cancer was linked to having oral sex,.......

Boys or girls or its?


148 posted on 03/08/2018 5:29:23 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Never pick a fight with an angry hornet's nest of 63+ million Trump Deplorables. You will lose!)
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To: House Atreides

Does nothing against gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes, genital warts, HIV/AIDS, and on and on but “go team”.


149 posted on 03/08/2018 5:29:56 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: freedumb2003

The poor woman had a break down after his announcement.


150 posted on 03/08/2018 5:31:14 PM PST by stellaluna
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Take your big government, totalitarian, stupidity to Huffpo. Our Christian kids are healthy, Godly, and vaccine free
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Well, we live in a free country so you’re free to leave your virginal, chaste children unvaccinated for HPV and I’ll have (actually already have) mine vaccinated for HPV for the simple reason that I love them and want to protect them as much as possible.

By the way, remember the wise words of Judge Judy — “How do you tell when a teenager is lying? When their lips are moving.”


151 posted on 03/08/2018 5:33:53 PM PST by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: HollyB

“And it takes a specific strain of hpv under individual conditions. Most HPV virus’s clear up on their own. Just like not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer. “ There are over 100 different kinds of HPV. “”

Yes. Not quite the direct correlation that is presented.

There are some contradictions in the narrative which says the problem is the male immune response to the virus. That brings up the question, is perhaps then the male response to vaccine, which mimics in infection and subsequent immune response, also not robust?

For the record I say that people who are concerned they will expose themselves to HPV ought to get vaccinated.


152 posted on 03/08/2018 5:34:43 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

“So tell me Einstein, aside from reputations how is the inexperienced supposed to know how many partners a potential partner has had?”

This is a non-sequitur, but I’ll comment.

You make it sound like children have no choice but to have sex with people they don’t know well.

I understand we do live in the liberal fundamentally transformed USA where even children have promiscuous sexual encounters.

Not all, by any means still, thankfully.

If anyone behaves in such a manner they ought to be vaccinated for HPV.

That still wouldn’t confer 100% guarantee but would help them.


153 posted on 03/08/2018 5:41:01 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: zerosix

“Free Love” wasn’t so “free” after all!

Well said.


154 posted on 03/08/2018 5:42:32 PM PST by Cats Pajamas
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To: ifinnegan

No children should have sex but college students are going to troll.


155 posted on 03/08/2018 5:50:56 PM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative.)
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To: xp38

They both looking worse for the wear though.


156 posted on 03/08/2018 5:52:23 PM PST by Cats Pajamas
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To: ought-six

I’m glad that Medicare is paying for them because the NHS isn’t. And Obamacare was fashioned after the British NHS.


157 posted on 03/08/2018 5:52:38 PM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: HollyB

There are a few strain of HPV that are particularly virulent. But yes, most strains of HPV clear up on their own.


158 posted on 03/08/2018 5:53:54 PM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: Getready

Yes. Only fools don’t realize that all viruses mutate. The vaccines available today won’t be effective for the viruses of the future.


159 posted on 03/08/2018 5:56:02 PM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: RooRoobird20

You took my curiosity from head to print.


160 posted on 03/08/2018 6:04:44 PM PST by mcshot (Prepare for the new meaning of "riding shotgun".)
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