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The \u201cmain risk factor\u201d is the number of partners someone has had oral sex with.<\/p>\n

Oral sex is causing an \u201cepidemic\u201d of throat cancer, with the practice more damaging than smoking, drinking and poor diet.<\/p>\n

It is now more common than cervical cancer in the UK and US, an expert has said.<\/p>\n

Much of this is due to a particular type of throat cancer \u2013 oropharyngeal cancer \u2013 which affects the area of the tonsils and back of the throat and is caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). HPV is also the leading cause of cervical cancer.<\/p>\n

\"HIIT<\/p>\n

HPV is the name of a very common group of viruses, according to the\u00a0NHS<\/a>. It states that \u201cthey cause no problems in most people, but some types can cause genital warts or cancer. HPV affects the skin. There are over 100 different types.<\/p>\n

Dr. Hisham Mehanna, from the UK\u2019s University of Birmingham, said people with multiple oral sex partners were more than eight times more likely to develop the cancer.<\/p>\n

Writing in The Conversation, Dr. Mehanna said: \u201cOver the past two decades, there has been a rapid increase in oropharyngeal cancer in the West, to the extent that some have called it an epidemic.<\/p>\n

Medical experts have identified HPV infection as the biggest risk factor for developing the disease.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe prevailing theory is that most of us get HPV infections and are able to clear them completely,\u201d Mehanna writes.<\/p>\n

\"Oral<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, a small number of people are unable to clear the infection, perhaps because of a defect in some aspect of their\u00a0immune system. In these patients, the virus is able to replicate continuously and, over time, integrate into the host\u2019s DNA at random sites, some of which can cause the host cells to become cancerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Mehanna said that for oropharyngeal cancer, the \u201cmost important risk factor\u201d is the number of partners someone has had oral sex with.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose with six or more lifetime oral sex partners are 8.5 times more likely to develop oropharyngeal cancer than those who do not practice oral sex,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

According to Mehanna\u2019s report, 80 % of adults report having engaged in oral sex at some point in their lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut thankfully,\u201d he asserts, \u201conly a small number of these people will develop oropharyngeal cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the NHS, around 8,300 people are diagnosed with throat cancer each year, which is about 1 in every 50 cancers. More than 2 in 3 cases of throat cancer develop in adults over the age of 55. Only 1 in 8 (12.5 %) occur in people under the age of 50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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