LONDON (Reuters) - 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.


The scientists studied more than 1,600 patients from Europe, Canada, Australia, Cuba and the Sudan with oral cancer and more than 1,700 healthy people.


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.


"The researchers think both cunnilingus and fellatio can infect people's mouths," the magazine added.


Raphael Viscidi, a virologist who worked on the research, believes the findings substantiate the link between HPV and oral cancer.


"This is a major study in terms of size," he said. "I think this will convince people."


High consumptions of alcohol and cigarettes are estimated to cause 75-90 percent of all cases of oral cancer. The combination of tobacco smoke and alcohol are thought to produce high levels of cancer causing agents.


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.

(from yahoo news)

All of a sudden I miss the LS and R forum....

gooeythehamster said:

you people r so hard 2 satisfy

I am hard....

But need some more of that satisfying part.

I see a new career for myself here. I'm going to make a fortune selling tonguedoms. Perhaps I'll call them Slurpies.

AsylumUtopia said:

AsylumUtopia said:

oh great... 1st cigs, then alcohol,now eating pussy's dangerous whats next "erections may cause spontaneous combustion??"

TheRealFiness said:

fake!!

TheRealFiness said:

only if you eat pussy that's infected with HPV. is there a link to this article?

jessyMD32781 said:

well, if U speak German i can give U this... http://science.orf.at/sci...ews/105878

Dancelot said:

thank you, but I don't speak German. DigitalLisa said that the article is from yahoo news. if that's true than she should have a link to it.

jessyMD32781 said:

HPV is the key here. Its misleading to simply say "ORAL SEX" is the problem. HPV is the issue.

DigitalLisa said:

What's considered "high consumptions" though?



Now I'm worried.

minneapolisgenius said:

how'd i know that i would find you in a thread about oral sex... ...

EllisDee said:

Hell I'm not worried about the oral sex/cancer link. I'm worried about the drinking and smoking link.

minneapolisgenius said:

well, i'll have to do something about that...


...

Then if this topic is true... then everyone is infected

luv4u said:

I'M GOING TO DIE!!!!!

TheRealFiness said:

luv4u said:

i'm not...i've never given/gotten head. don't wanna, either.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

... don't wanna..? why the hell not... head is tha shiz-nit...

minneapolisgenius said:

I'd say - any smoking at all may cause and over recommended weekly units of booze?

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Very curious...

Why?!

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i'm fucked then.

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Therapy said:

it don't seem appealin at all to me, really.

jeezus christ! is there ANYTHING we can enjoy doing?!?!

:0

althom said:

Awww, nooooo Althom (there, there, now) don't

Tom said:

With all kinds of medical claims out there how do we know what safe to do???