American Association for the Advancements of Science found out that there was a higher chance for men, who have several sexual partners, to develop oral cancers. A new study presented at "AAAS" on its annual meeting on Feb. 12 presented guys are prone to have mouth and throat tumors.
According to Daily Mail, the researchers explained that even if women have numerous mates they still have little chance to bear the disease. The infection is connected to the human papillomavirus or also known as "HPV-driven cancers."
It is one of the most common usual "sexually transmitted infections." On the other hand, the analysts also added that men have a higher risk to be exposed to HPV-driven cancers of the head and neck depending on the number of their oral sex partners.
"Our research shows that for men, the number of oral sex partners - as that number increases, the risk of an oral HPV infection increases," A professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland Gypsyamber said. "Comparing men and women with the same number of sexual partners, a man is much more likely to become infected with oral HPV than a woman."
She also elaborated that white men in their middle ages are vulnerable to have this disease compared to other races. In fact, her research also resulted that teenagers nowadays are already practicing oral sex at a young age in contrast to the past generations.
Moreover, in the figures saved by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or CDC, it was recorded that oral cancers already took 8,000 lives in the United States alone every year. Also, there were about 30,000 new cases reported every year, Latinos Health reported.
D'Souza added that women are immune to HPV as they are already exposed to the infection in their vagina. Hence, they have stronger immunity against oral HPV infection compared to men.
