As far as alarming headlines are concerned, there are few scarier than those warning that oral sex is causing an epidemic of throat cancer.Oral sex is now the leading risk factor for throat cancer"For oropharyngeal cancer, the main risk factor is the number of lifetime sexual partners, especially oral sex," the University of Birmingham cancer expert wrote. "Those with six or more lifetime oral-sex partners are 8.
That's indeed alarming. But there's good news for any oral sex enjoyers out there: there's an HPV vaccine,Mehanna, to his credit, does allude to the vaccine — but only briefly, far below the headline, and with an emphasis on growing vaccine hesitancy.CDC, is that "vaccination could prevent more than 90 percent of cancers caused by HPV from ever developing."— but widespread vaccination could cut HPV-related cancers into a tiny fraction.