Scientists warn that oral sex could raise the risk of getting mouth, throat, and other cancers by 22 times!
Current research led by Dr. Ilir Agalliu and colleagues at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York has discovered that about 70% of all head and neck cancers are caused by human papillomavirus (HPV).
There are over 170 types of HPV, more than 40 of which are typically transmitted through intercourse or oral sex, and HPV-16 is one of them.
There are over 170 types of HPV, more than 40 of which are typically transmitted through intercourse or oral sex, and HPV-16 is one of them.
The new study show conclusively that HPV-16’s presence in the mouth increases person’s chances to development various kinds of head and neck cancers.
The findings were based on nearly 97,000 people who provided their mouthwash samples to verify they were cancer-free at the beginning of the experiment.
Four years later 132 cases of head and neck cancers were recorded. Subsequently the mouthwash samples of those infected were compared with 396 healthy people.
And it turned out that people with HPV-16 were 22 times more likely to develop oropharyngeal cancer than were those without it.
It means that performing unprotected oral sex on a person infected with HPV-16 could dramatically increase the risk of oral cancer.
HPV can be contracted through unprotected genital, anal or oral sex and can drive to the cancers of the penis, vagina, anus, mouth, rectum, cervix and throat.
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