Anal cancer rates on rise in both sexes

[PfcHammer]

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Anal cancer rates on rise in both sexes

SEATTLE, July 8 (UPI) -- Anal cancer rates are on the rise among both U.S. men and women, with doctors attributing tobacco use and changing sexual behavior to the increase.

Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center found anal cancer cases have jumped 160 percent in men and 78 percent in women over the past 30 years, especially among African-American men, whose incidence rates have more than tripled.

Researchers said tobacco use was a primary risk factor, and the best way to prevent against anal cancer is to quit smoking.

"Current smoking is a very important promoter of the disease," epidemiologist Janet Daling said in a statement. "There's a fourfold increase in risk if you're a current smoker, regardless of whether you're male or female."

[Heddi]

1. Hey! I work for Fred Hutch (the ones who did the research)

Great company!

Creepy news though. Even though I work in breast & ovarian cancer, I really didn't know there was even a thing as Anal Cancer :shrug: Although, I guess there's a cancer for every body part on us.

This is disturbing!

[bullimiami]

4. I dont understand the linkage

Anal cancer and smoking? On the rise, now?
That doesnt seem to make any sense.

What is with the smoking and changing sexual habits?
People are butt-smoking now?

[Heddi]

6. I assume it's because

of the carcinogens in cigarettes that are affecting anal or colonic tissue in some way. :shrug: I don't really know. I work with "lady-cancers"--ovarian & breast. Me not know about anal cancer.
It should be noted that cigarette smoking (of which I am a partaker, embarassingly enough) increases your risk for ALLLLLLLL cancers--not just lung, mouth, throat, etc. Risk of breast cancer--increased. Thyroid--increased. Ovarian--increased. Ciggies are bad!

--snort---butt-smoking. Ew.

edited to add funny picture

[KittyWampus]

29. In Chinese Medicine- Lungs Are Connected To Large Intestine

[Gman]

2. No doubt the RW will find a way to tie this report to the moral decline

of America and to somehow smear Kerry/Edwards with it. They'll have to be creative, but I know they can pull it off.

[Heddi]

3. Well it says in the article

that other risk factors include multiple sexual partners in gay & bi men as well as repeatedly being the 'receptor' for anal sex.

Of course they'll spin this as "GAY CANCER" and assert causation between being gay and getting anal cancer

[King of New Orleans]

5. Just exactly how are they smoking the tobacco?

Sorry I just couldn't resist.

[Heddi]

7. mabye like this

:)=D

[peterh]

17. Hmmm….I could learn to love that butt…

And that butt…..:freak:

[demoman123]

8. 90% of tumors tested pos for STD virus, but study blames smoking. Why?

Here's what it says:

The study tested patients for the presence of human papillomavirus, or HPV, a well-known sexually transmitted viral marker of anal cancer found in the blood and tumor tissue.

Results showed about 90 percent of the tumors tested positive for the virus.

Researchers said tobacco use was a primary risk factor, and the best way to prevent against anal cancer is to quit smoking.

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[Heddi]

9. Well I suppose

because having HPV puts you at risk for alot of reproductive problems to begin with. Cervical cancer rates are greatly increased in women who have HPV (also known as genital warts).

Smoking puts you at increased risk for cancers, period.

So I would assume that the GREATEST risk is smoking. HOWEVER, having HPV is also carries a large risk as well. Smoking AND having HPV would just be extremely detrimental to one's health.

And also, one can quit smoking, but one can't 'quit' HPV. it's a virus. Its with you forever. So once you have it, you have it. Once you start smoking, you can stop. So it's just a matter of ability to modify behaviour.

[demoman123]

10. That still doesn't make sense to me.

Maybe you can't quit HPV, but you can quit anal sex, just as you can quit smoking. But the article just says to quit smoking.

[qazplm]

11. because

once you get HPV, more anal sex is not going to make a bit of difference, but more smoking will.

[truthisfreedom]

12. so smoking triggers the HPV to turn into butt cancer.

right?

[demoman123]

14. Well, why don't they warn people against anal sex beforehand?

Just as they warn kids not to smoke. Then people would not get HPV that way.

[truthisfreedom]

15. HPV spreads everywhere, and is not stopped by condoms, according to recent

research. any kind of sex with or without condoms spreads HPV. a HUGE percentage of the population already has some form of HPV, although of the 30-odd known forms, not all are cancer-causing. this is a serious problem... and it's not going away any time soon.

[demoman123]

16. Well, I guess people can't stop having sex everywhere

with or without condoms. But if they stopped having anal sex that would reduce their chances of getting anal cancer. Yet this is not mentioned.

[Voice_of_Europe]

18. HPV

want to kiss with a condom?
With some things you just have to live...
And of some thing everybody has to die... eventually..

It's not that I'm totally careless about it... but half the human population has "blisters" and there is no way to get rid of it. Many inherit it from their parents already.

Look at the numbers who all carry it... and then look at the numbers who die of it or whose deaths are somehow linked to it.

And then also ask yourself: Does is matter wether you die of vaginal or anal cancer? No? Then lets everybody have his/her fun.

[Voice_of_Europe]

19. Sharing cigarettes

Don't share a cigarette with anybody!
You could get blisters! Some people really have no other problems.


LOL....

[Heddi]

20. well. HPV isn't 'caused' by Anal Sex

HPV is a sexually transmitted disease. You can have HPV in your mouth. You can have HPV on your penis. You can have HPV on your vagina. You can have HPV on your anus.

You can have nothing but vaginal sex and still end up with genital warts on your anus. THey're warts--a virus---they're transmitted by contact. They can be found throughout the body just by casual contact. If a woman wipes from front to back, she can transmit her genital warts to her anal area.

Stopping anal sex won't stop HPV any more than stopping anal sex will reduce AIDS infections. The virus (HPV) isn't anal specific just as it's not vagina specific or penis specific.

Another poster below stated that condoms may not even stop the spread of genital warts--this is true in many cases. Unlike other STD's which are transmitted by bodily fluids, HPV is transmitted by skin-to-skin contact. If you have genital warts on your labia majora (outer vaginal lips), a condom won't protect a man from having parts of his body come into contact with outer vaginal lips. Equally, if a man has genital warts on his scrotum, or towards the 'root' of his penis, a condom won't stop those body parts from coming into contact with flesh of someone he's having sex with.

So just as HPV is a sexually transmitted disease, it's also a skin-to-skin contact disease. One can get genital warts by mutual masturbation without any penis-to-vagina, or penis-to-anus, etc contact.

[FlaGranny]

24. An explanation -

the chemicals in cigarette smoke are carcinogenic. HPV has long been known to predispose to cancer. Add cigarette smoke to existing HPV and you have added a catalyst to start growing cancer cells.

Edit: The carcinogens circulate in the bloodstream and reach every part of the body, not just the respiratory system.

[John_H]

13. Well, there is certainly an anal cancer on the presidency.

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[Heddi]

22. what problems would those be

pray tell?

So gay men who have anal sex are biologically incorrect because anal sex is just one of a very very few ways they can experience intercourse with another man?

Women who engage in anal sex with their partners are causing themselves problems by having sex in bioloigcally incorrect ways?

Good god---I really hope you're being sarcastic.

And I anxiously await a list of other 'problems' that are caused by anal sex....

[FlaGranny]

25. There are some -

sphincter "laxity," which can cause incontinence in later years, and anal fissures, which bleed and can be very painful and can predispose to infection.

I'm certainly not against people doing whatever they please, but people need to be aware. Having heterosexual sex and having babies can cause problems too, which are no less severe.

[Heddi]

26. but I would never say

that anal sex is "biologically incorrect" as the above poster did, and the problems related to anal sex that you listed pale in comparison to anal cancer.

That would be like advocating women refrain from vaginal sex because sometimes tearing of the vaginal wall can occur, which can be very painful and predispose to infection.

Hell--even male-female vaginal sex increases rates of urinary tract infections. It can inflame or contribute to the spread of yeast infections. Vigorous thrusting on the part of the man can cause small tears on the external urethreal meatus (read: pee hole) which can cause inflammation, pain, and infection.

But we'd never advocate telling men and women to refrain from male-female missionary position sex because of 'problems' associated with that form of sex (which is what the poster I was commenting to was saying)

ALLL forms of human activity have risks associated with them. People should be taught safe sex (which includes sexual health), and I totally support that in all forms. But I would never act so wise as to say that anal sex is BIOLOGICALLY WRONG and that any problems that occur are on the same level as anal cancer.

[lil-petunia]

23. and here I thought it was

because we were being butt-fucked by the administration.

[yellowcanine]

27. People are smoking cigarettes with their butts?

.

[RedFury]

30. Re: anal cancer

"Anal cancer rates are on the rise among both U.S. men and women"

Not surprising considering what BushCo has been doing to America for the past four years.

[Shakespeare]

28. Yes, THIS is the high cost of blowing smoke up one's ass.

:smoke:

[Snoggera]

31. attributing tobacco use and changing sexual behavior to the increase.

Bullshit. A smaller percentage of people smoke now than in previous decades, and I doubt that sexual behaviors have changed since before caveperson times.

This study has no shred of validity.