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Hi everyone. We spend a lot of time talking about skin cancers in sun exposed areas. Today I want to talk about a specific kind of skin cancer that is caused by a virus and not sun exposure. Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the second most commonly diagnosed skin cancer (basal cell carcinoma is the m...
I recently heard that many people who do not smoke are coming up with this disease in their throat, or mouth. Can oral sex be transmitting the disease, and why don't we have a campagne to tell people about that danger. Can the vaccine work for a possible case of cancer in the throat? I was diagnosed with HPV 10 years ago, and the doctor said I didn't need to notify my sex partners because I could have been carrying the disease for years, and not known it, it was not known where I contracted the disease, you can carry and transmit the disease without knowing it. Now I hear that oral sex might be transmitting cancer. How will the message get out?
Men's beliefs about HPV-related disease. NT Brewer, TW Ng, AL McRee, PL Reiter. J Behav Med 2010 Aug;33(4):274-81. Results of an online survey of 312 gay or bisexual men and 296 heterosexual men in January 2009. "The response rate was 70%. Fewer than half of men knew that HPV can cause genital warts (41%), anal cancer (24%), and oral cancers (23%). However, gay and bisexual men typically knew more than heterosexual men about these topics. Overall, most men believed that sexual behavior causes genital warts (70%) and anal cancer (54%), and tobacco use causes oral cancer (89%)."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20162346