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Swedish study links oral sex to mouth cancer
On November 16, 2005, www.breitbart.com published an article reporting on a Swedish study that links oral sex to mouth cancer.
They reported, “certain cases of mouth cancer appear to be caused by a virus that can be contracted during oral sex, media reported, quoting a new Swedish study.
People who contract a high-risk variety of the human papilloma virus, HPV, during oral sex are more likely to fall ill with mouth cancer, according to a study conducted at the Malmo University Faculty of Odontology in southern Sweden. “
They quoted the dentist and researcher Kerstin Rosenquist as saying who headed the study, "you should avoid having oral sex."
The article went on to explain that, “HPV is a wart virus that causes many cervical cancers, including endometrial cancer (in the uterus). “
The study compared 132 patients with mouth cancer with a control group of 320 healthy men. The researcher, Rosenquist found that, “36 percent of the cancer patients were carriers of HPV while only one percent of the control group had the virus.”
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