On the Vexing, Very Recent Spate of Healthy People Getting Neck Cancer

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http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/11/on-the-vexing-very-recent-spate-of-healthy-people-getting-neck-cancer/281783/

***SNIP

In 2005, Ohio State professor Dr. Maura Gillison's research found:

... people with head and neck cancer were 15 times more likely to be infected with HPV in their mouths or throats than those without. The association backed up some of Gillison's earlier work, which showed how HPV DNA integrates itself into the nuclei of throat cells and produces cancer-causing proteins. Gillison leapt from her chair and began jumping up and down. “The association was so incredibly strong, it made me realize this was absolutely irrefutable evidence,” she said.


Since then, she and a network of other researchers have amassed a mountain of evidence that HPV causes a large proportion of head and neck cancers, and that these HPV-positive cancers are on the rise. The finding has been “a paradigm-shifting realization in the field,” said Robert Ferris, chief of the division of head and neck surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute in Pennsylvania.

The medical community is struggling to come to grips with the implications. ... If HPV can get into the mucous membranes of the mouth and throat, where does it stop? ... “Our clinics are flooded” with head and neck cancers triggered by HPV, she says, vexation clear in her voice. “But though I talk about it constantly in public settings and the lay press, it amazes me that it's often as if no one has heard of it.”




***AND TO THINK: WE HAVE AN EFFECTIVE VACCINE FOR THAT.

[mopinko]

1. wait, you mean

its not electric transmission wires or cell phones?
that can't be right, can it?

oh wait, yeah, science....

[truedelphi]

2. Young RW very Christian women utilize certain methods of

"not having" sex to give pleasure to their beaus.

"Abstinence" is carrying with it a scourge of dental problems, and now this reminder of HPV, and the risks that come with it, comes along.