yesterday - they released a study and said that next to cigarette
smoking, alcohol is the second source to mouth cancer.  and today, they
publish this article.  

with prostate cancer attacking our sexual function, if one was to take
these articles  seriously - what's left?  

you don't have the sexual function, you can't smoke, you can't drink to
forget about it, and you can't have oral sex.  

maybe cutting out paper dolls????????

~ curtis

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Published: 16th November 2005  18:35 CET

Oral sex linked to cancer - Swedish study

Avoid oral sex. That's the advice from dentist Kerstin Rosenquist after
a new Swedish study confirmed that the Papilloma Virus increases the
risk of oral cancer. The virus has previously been linked with cancer of
the uterus.

The risk of getting cancer of the mouth after oral sex is small. But for
those whose mouths are infected by a special form of the virus, known as
a high risk Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), there is an increased risk.

Kerstin Rosenquist compared 132 cancer patients in the south of Sweden
with a control group of 320 healthy individuals. In the cancer group,
36% carried the high risk HPV, compared to just 1% in the control group.

The result is in line with earlier studies. Last year French researchers
reported that patients with oral cancer who were infected with the virus
had had three times more oral sex than who did not carry the virus.

Oral cancer is most common among older middle-aged men.

"But in recent years the disease has increased among young people and we
don't know why," said Kerstin Rosenquist to TT.

"We can speculate over whether the virus is one of the factors."

Smoking and high alcohol consumption have long been considered the most
significant risk factors, but there is no proven link with the kind of
snus used in Sweden.

As well as avoiding oral sex, Kerstin Rosenquist advised people to visit
the dentist regularly, since the first symptoms can be hard to spot.
Early diagnosis is important if the cancer is to be prevented from
spreading to nearby lymph glands.

Other risk factors are poor oral hygiene and missing teeth.

knowledge is power - growing old is mandatory - growing wise is optional    
"Many more men die with prostate cancer than of it. Growing old is
invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so."
http://community.webtv.net/PALMER_ENT/doc