Oral Sex Shown To Be Linked To Mouth Cancer

[CShine]

Although the risk is small and it is more likely to result from heavy drinking and smoking, scientists have uncovered evidence that oral sex can cause mouth cancer.

Researchers had suspected that a sexually transmitted infection that is linked to cervical cancer could also be associated with tumors in the mouth.

Now a study by researchers working for the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France seems to have confirmed it.

"Oral sex can lead to oral tumors," New Scientist magazine said Wednesday, referring to the latest research.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&e=3&u=/nm/health_oralsex_dc

[kixot]

1. My wife isn't going to be happy about this.

n/t

[Voice_of_Europe]

28. not a oneway thing...

Hey.. that works both ways around...

[waterman]

59. That sucks.

[Endangered Specie]

71. Thats hitting below the belt in the pun dept.

[Bonhomme Richard]

2. We really did use up all the fun

[Exultant Democracy]

3. Noooooooooooo

oh only orally transmitted STDs not oral sex it's self. I guess that is better.

[freeforall]

4. ROFLMAO! Unless you...

you flavoured condoms. (Kinda takes away the fun, and the taste of rubber is...well, yecch!)

[Bozita]

5. Beef, farm salmon, chicken, and now THIS?

[symbolman]

13. The only

thing that doesn't taste like chicken..

[Jax]

21. symbolman you devil

:evilgrin:

Thank you for your excellent efforts for a long time here at DU and with many other places and media as well.

Jax

[Junkdrawer]

66. As we in the pizza business used to say: "Anchovies smell like two..

things - and one of them is fish."

[CHIMO]

6. seems to have confirmed it.

believes the findings substantiate the link between HPV and oral cancer.


Look for key words.


May be a * publication.

[neverforget]

7. Oral sex linked to oral cancer? This sucks!

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[woofless]

9. Hey we all gotta go somehow.

Think of the look on your friends faces whe you reply to the question "What caused your cancer?". Priceless.

[Cassandra]

39. Well, you knew that was coming

That was irresistible.

[oostevo]

8. Argh.

Read the article! Their findings suggest that cancer-causing viruses are transmittable through the mouth, not that oral sex causes cancer. Saying oral sex causes cancer is like saying 'having sex promotes cervical cancer'.

[freeforall]

10. This will be their next claim...

Saying oral sex causes cancer is like saying 'having sex promotes cervical cancer'.

Maybe if the scientists would get out of their labs and live a little...

[CHIMO]

14. What Scientists

This is a head line grabbing issue.
There is no reference to a recognized science authority.

It is filled with reflex words such as expected, suspected, think.

Scientists are currently working on vaccines to prevent cervical cancer, which is more common, but they might also be effective against oral cancer.

"It is thought the vaccines would prevent oral infections as well," the magazine added.

Who paid for the research, where was the peer review.
Maybe if you knew science and gut reaction you could read an article.
Scientists are not from Mars(Venus). (Yet)

[BiggJawn]

31. Bush's "Junk Scientists" from Liberty University.

The same ones that tell him there is no global warming, the fish and the human can co-exist peacably, clear-cutting prevents forest fires, etc.
So this is how they think they're gonna scare the kids out of "no big deal" mouth-music, since Abstinence has been such a rousing success at keeping their pants up...

"Hey kids! if you suck each other off, sure, you won't get pregnant, but you're GONNA CATCH CANCER!!!!!"

[shanti]

41. sort of like

having abortions causes breast cancer :eyes:

[amazona]

47. intercourse proven risk factor for cervical cancer, sorry

It has been established for at least two decades or more than sex is a risk factor for cervical cancer. Nuns have a fraction of the cervical cancer of other women. Way back when, it was speculated that the cause was the herpes virus. Now we seem to be pretty sure that it's a HPV virus that causes cervical cancer. This virus is spread by having intercourse with men. Sorry. I'm not really surprised that an HPV virus could also be spread by oral sex and cause oral cancer. It's fairly logical. Since I don't see how you can really avoid HPV, I just feel it's one of those things not worth worrying about. Get your check-ups and get abnormal cells removed from the cervix as needed (it's a VERY minor office procedure, I've done it) and get on with your life. Condoms are not known to be particularly effective against HPVs to my knowledge. If you are a man, insist your female partner(s) get annual Pap smears. Prevention works miracles with cervical cancer.

Edited -- spelling!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

11. Well...that really blows.

[DemocraticDonkey]

17. heh. Is that a joke?

.

[shanti]

42. nahhh, ya think?

n/t

[mediaman007]

12. The Right Wing thinks that this is solid science.

They new it all along. Various oral activities will soon be classified as terrorist activities.

[gauguin57]

15. Clinton's penis!

It's all the fault of Clinton's penis!!!

[Chovexani]

20. I can see it now

Drudge Breaking News: Clinton's penis causes cancer!

[tarheel]

54. No No No

They will be classified as Oral Cancer Transmission Related Activities !


:P :P :P

[Mz Pip]

16. Might as well

die happy. :-)

MzPip
:dem:

[Oilwellian]

18. Well darn

I'm all choked up.

[Fight_n_back]

19. Could they be more specific?

Is it all oral sex?

Is it fellatio or cunnil lingus or both?

cuz, ya know, if its fellatio then who gives a rats ass but if its that other one then I'll have to give up smoking and drinking.

[arcos]

22. Breaking: Living linked to cancer!! n/t

[K8-EEE]

49. OMG -- Study Shows Living Can Lead To Dying!

...in some cases. Stop living immediately!`

[ProfessorGAC]

51. No, It's Not The Living That Causes Cancer!

It's the eating, breathing, drinking, moving, working, sleeping, excercising, thinking, playing, etc. that causes the cancer.

If you would just live without the breathing, eating, sleeping, etc., i'm pretty sure that you won't get cancer. Now, figuring out how to do that; that could be difficult.
The Professor

[arcos]

55. Thanks!

I will start to avoid those things from now on!

[BrewerJohn]

23. Hmmm...

"They found that patients with oral cancer containing a strain of the human papilloma virus (HPV) known as HPV16 were three times more likely to report having had oral sex than those without the virus strain."

They found at least one subject who said they had NEVER had oral sex?
So how many?

I want to check their statistics.

:evilgrin:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

24. Oh bull shit! This story was written by a lazy man!

[oneighty]

38. NSMA

Please explain your position.

180

[Name removed]

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[turnhardleft]

69. Why do you say this story was written by a lazy man?

I don't understand what that means. Please explain.

[Voltaire99]

25. (*ahem*) Putting on best Charleton Heston voice...

"...until they pry my cold, dead lips from..."

Heh, sorry. My wife says I'm gross. ;-)

[xchrom]

26. so at that peculliar moment

how many of you straight boys are going to have a debate in your mind: ''should i or shouldn't i?''

[ze_dscherman]

27. New finding: Life is a sexually transmitted disease ...

... with a fatality rate of 100%.

SCNR

[Voice_of_Europe]

29. lol

great one...
I'll shamelessly steal this...

priceless

[Voice_of_Europe]

30. Imagine you're a smoker...

You'd want to have as much oral sex as you can get in order to have a solid reason WHY you got that mouth cancer...

well.. anyway, that goes for non-smokers too ^_^

[Loonman]

32. Misleading article

HPV that is transmitted orally *may* result in mouth cancer.

[treepig]

33. exactly, the headline actually should have read

"human papilloma virus shown to be linked to mouth cancer"

it's the virus that causes the cancer, not the oral sex.

[DiverDave]

34. The HEADline sure got my attention.

Um, I don't think I will show this to the wife.

[BonjourUSA]

35. And with the hand ?

Cancer by the mouth, AIDS by the sex... I'm gonna follow the Bush's advice and chose abstinence… :-)

[Vladimir]

36. I suspect

it will get linked to carpal tunnel syndrome...

[Art_from_Ark]

37. Screw abstinence

Everything's dangerous for my health anyway

[BonjourUSA]

40. The masturbation is not even absolutely safe !

When I was a kid, a catholic priest said the maturbation could make deaf !! :bounce:

[latebloomer]

43. I thought masturbation made you blind

And the old joke goes, "Can I just do it till I need glasses?"

[Wickerman]

44. What?

sorry.

I imagine this is further propoganda to encourage abstinence in our youth. Studies have shown that oral sex is on a huge rise as its percieved as safer - no pregnancy...

Or, its a jhshitty headline that misrepresents the study - effective on both accounts - the late night tv crowd will have a large time with this.

[yellowcanine]

63. But masturbation helps prevent prostate cancer

So I have heard. Some British study I believe. Hopefully not the same guys that ginned up the "Dodgey Dossier" on Iraq.

[koopie57]

68. oh.....

so that is what he was saying!

[THUNDER HANDS]

45. I have to say, this news is hard for me to swallow

I'm horrible...just horrible... :evilgrin:

[DiverDave]

46. Yes you are

And I resent that they are cramming this down our throats.
I am an evil man. LOL

[T Bone]

58. But people have been known to

<never mind, can't bring myself to say it>

[PlanetBev]

48. My best friend's boyfriend has oral cancer

He's 47 years old has a 21% chance of surviving for two years. He just went through a grueling regime of chemotherapy. The doctors are baffled by this cancer, saying that it's pretty rare. He is not a heavy smoker, but was in the porn business for years and engaged in a lot of oral sex with different partners. There might be some merit to this theory. I'm e-mailing this article to my friend.

[amazona]

50. I'm sorry to hear that, my thoughts go out to him

I'm not sure I would email the article though, because the damage is done. Various HPVs seem to endemic in the human population, and I'm not sure how we can avoid them. Condoms work for HIV but I haven't heard of them working for HPV and, of course, abstinence fails more often than any other preventative. I wonder if regular dental check-ups would have caught the problem earlier? The cervical cancer tramsitted by these viruses is quite fast-growing, and women are advised to get Pap Smears really every year, although the insurance companies want us to go every three years. Maybe this is an argument for getting a dentist to check in your mouth every year if you are sexually active? Will have to investigate.

[mistertrickster]

60. I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing that the smoking had a lot

more to do with it than the sex. Tobacco is a huge risk factor compared to anything else. Plenty of boys in their late teens have oral cancers from chew, and they didn't even know they were at risk . . .

[Az_lefty]

52. I'm not going to tell my wife....

:wtf:

[derby378]

53. Cue Joe Jackson music...

Everything gives you cancer...

[catzies]

56. I thought this was a Lounge Thread!

It's already been a crazy day; nothing could surprise me at this point.

[revree]

57. Is this research group a bunch of evangelical Christians or what?

Sounds mighty suspicious.

[mistertrickster]

61. Remember, going from an incidence of one in a million to one in

one hundred thousand means that you've increased your risk by a factor of ten.

But one in 100,000 is still a pretty tiny risk, isn't it.

Also, this means kissing would spread HPV and the risk of cancer too, right?

[xchrom]

62. good catch

kissing{prolonged i would suppose} could be oral sex in this instance.

[leesa]

64. Oh Please. My guess is a bad study, since oral sex has been

around as long as organisms with mouths have existed and the rate of oral cancer is relatively low. What a bunch of crap! Methinks they have not excluded all other possible causes. Jeez.

[EV1Ltimm]

65. Jeez, can you eat anything that doesn't give you cancer?

[yo-yo-ma]

70. the results of this study are clinically meaningless

There have been other studies of similar quality some of which have shown a relationship between oral sex and cancer, others which haven't. The literature does agree on other risk factors for this rather rare type of cancer. The most common risk factors are -- HIV, alcohol use, smoking, especially smoking and alcohol together, any type of tobacco (cigar, pipe, chew), and poor dentition.

[Endangered Specie]

72. This is HEADline news

:evilgrin: