Oral Sex And Pot Linked To Cancer

(WebMD)  Certain head and neck cancers may be tied to sexual activity, marijuana use, and human papillomavirus (HPV ) type 16.

That news comes from Johns Hopkins University's Maura Gillison, MD, PhD, and colleagues, who studied 240 people with head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (head and neck cancers). Some of their cancers tested positive for HPV 16; others were negative for HPV 16.

The patients answered questions about their lifestyle. For comparison, 322 cancer-free people answered the same lifestyle questions.

Here's what the researchers learned:

Head and neck cancers that were positive for HPV 16 were associated with having more oral sex partners and smoking more marijuana.

Head and neck cancers that were negative for HPV 16 weren't linked to sex or marijuana. Instead, they were tied to smoking tobacco, drinking alcohol, and having poor oral hygiene.

Because the study was observational, it's not clear if those risk factors caused cancer.

Based on the findings, Gillison's team argues that HPV 16-negative and HPV 16-positive head and neck squamous cell carcinomas should be considered two different types of cancer.

The study appears in Tuesday's advance online edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.



By Miranda Hitti
Reviewed by Louise Chang
©2008 WebMD, Inc. All rights reserved

[honestabe8]

NEVER, EVER CONSENT TO A SEARCH. LET THE SWINE GET WARRANTS. "To Fine And Collect" should be on the side of their pigmobiles

[rushman71]

fortuenti: I''m sure that both Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski fit into that catagory. LOL

[fortuenti]

What about people who "don''t inhale" and/or don''t SWALLOW for that matter? LOL

[rushman71]

That last comment I made was typed up yesterday, then erased by another moron. This is freedom of speech.

[rushman71]

Man, I should move to Amsterdam, where it is legal to get high and blown!!!

[fortuenti]

"GUTTER SCIENCE" ... "YELLOW JOURNALISM"

the TRUTH can be read at:

http://www.jackherer.com/chapter15.html

[taylpatr]

This one is as stupid as the one years ago where they said that smoking weed made mens breasts grow bigger. If you really read this article you will see that it''s just gibberish. It doesn''t come to any definite conclusions. It''s just another smokescreen to cast a bad light on something they don''t want to legalize. And the reason they don''t want to leagalize is that it helps them get guns out of the hands of more citizens than any other method they have come up with yet. Between that and the pi*s tests and the mandatory sentences we''ve gone from the most free culture on earth to the most oppressed culture in less than 30 years. And THEN they tell you that there''s no conspiracys in our government. Yea, right!
If you want the truth about marijuana vs. cancer, google up May 2006 articles on the subject. Read it and weep!

[nothappyatall]

CBS uses the words S E X and O R A L in their story headline, but won''''t allow Americans the same right on these boards??? These are some true Nazi Corporate Fascists....they block spelling out words youd think were perfectly acceptable anywhere.....freedom of the press,...my A S S..

Posted by veteran71"

What do you expect of a paper that has all kinds of hyperlinks to stories on the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR??

[fortuenti]

"GUTTER SCIENCE" ... "YELLOW JOURNALISM"

the TRUTH can be read at: http://www.jackherer.com/chapter15.html

[fortuenti]

"GUTTER SCIENCE" ... "YELLOW JOURNALISM"

the TRUTH can be read at: http://www.jackherer.com/chapter15.html