Have just read a DISTURBING article on "HPV Link to developing Oral Cancer" !!!! Wanted to share the info and receive feedback from fellow team members.
Seems that many oral cancer patients treated today have tumors on the back of their tongues and throat , caused by the human papillomavirus-16 (HPV)!!! And the theory is that all of them got the HPV from oral sex !!!
98 % of cervical cancer is caused by HPV and mostly HPV-16, but no one thought that you could get mouth cancer from it !!! Even "baby boomers" who thought they had dodged the STD bullet may not have after all, as the HPV lies dormant for years, before causing cancer.
Be careful out there amigos. Be careful what (who) you eat !
UGGGGGG!!! Sort of severe ramifications for anyone doing oral.
though HPV has been linked to a 32x increase in risk of oral / throat cancer
1 the overall risk is still immensely less than being maimed in a traffic accident. The risk is less than that of many common activities.
2 nobody that I've read is claiming causality yet. co-incidence and causality are not the same. One could do a study about how many people have eaten a carrot within 6 months of having a heart attack and generate a statistic of co-incidence.
bottom line: understand the risks versus benefit ratio of any activity. Different people will come to differing conclusions about these tradeoffs. I love skydiving, but bungee jumping is not my deal (I have tried it twice.....)