Hisham Mehanna. Oral sex may be the biggest factor in the rise of throat cancer in the United States. Hisham Mehanna — a professor at the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences at the University of Birmingham — said that there has been a "rapid increase" in oropharyngeal cancer, a type of throat cancer, in the past two decades, calling it an "epidemic" in both the U.
HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection, with 3 million new cases in the U. Many people will live their lives without ever knowing that they have HPV, but for some, it can develop into cancer. Though people with HPV infections often "clear them completely," Mehanna said others can develop severe symptoms. The health agency also states that it is unclear if having HPV alone is enough to cause oropharyngeal cancers, or if other factors — like smoking or chewing tobacco — interact with HPV to cause these cancers.
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