Ugh!! Even MORE foreskin horrors!!!!! Sucking them can give you throat cancer!!!

[windinghighway]

The medical evidence for the pathogenic nature of foreskins just keeps
on mounting! We already know that men with foreskins are more likely
to acquire HPV, the virus that causes genital warts and cervical
cancer in women. Tens or hundreds of millions of women must have
suffered horrible deaths because of cancers acquired via their
partners' foreskins. Now it seems that HPV is a cause of throat
cancer too. Fortunately most people would rather not suck on a penis
with a foreskin hanging off the end, but for those who do, there is a
mortal danger of throat cancer too! Ugh.


Study Cites Increase in Cancers From HPV
By Denise Grady
New York Times
Published: October 3, 2011

Throat cancers caused by a virus transmitted during oral sex have
increased significantly in the United States in recent years,
researchers reported on Monday.

The virus is the same one that causes many cases of cervical
cancer:human papillomavirus (HPV) Type 16.
Researchers tested tumor samples from 271 patients with certain types
of throat cancer diagnosed from 1984 to 2004. The virus was found in
only 16 percent of the samples from the 1980s — but in 72 percent of
those collected after 2000.
The researchers estimated that over all, throat cancers caused by the
virus have increased to 2.6 per 100,000 people in 2004 from 0.8 cases
per 100,000 people in 1988. If the trend continues, by 2020 the virus
will be causing more throat cancer than cervical cancer, the study
concluded.
Doctors in the United States and other countries had already noticed
increases in throat cancers caused by HPV, but the extent was unclear.
“This is the first definitive evidence that these changes at the
population level are indeed caused by HPV infection,” said Dr. Maura
L. Gillison, the senior author of the new study and the chairwoman
ofcancer research at Ohio State University.
The research is published in The Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Dr. Kevin J. Cullen, director of the Greenebaum Cancer Center at the
University of Maryland, said the study was well done. “It’s very clear
that this is becoming a major epidemic,” he added.
He said his own research team had found similar increases in throat
cancers in Baltimore during the last 30 years. Researchers think the
trend may be attributable to increases in oral sex, particularly among
younger people who think it is safer than intercourse.
Dr. Gillison said the increase in throat cancers was not a cause for
panic because they still are not common. There are fewer than 10,000
cases a year. Most people with HPV do not develop cancer.
The throat tumors it causes, called oropharyngeal cancers, occur in
specific areas: the base of the tongue and the area just behind the
mouth, including the soft palate, tonsils, and the side and back walls
of the throat. Some oropharyngeal cancers are not caused by the virus,
but by tobacco and alcohol; their rates have been decreasing assmoking
has declined.
Throat cancers caused by HPV are more treatable than those not caused
by the virus. Median survival in throat cancer patients with the virus
is 131 months; without it, 20 months. Virus-related throat cancers are
far more common in men than in women, a difference that has not been
explained.
HPV is commonly found in the genital region and is transmitted by
intimate contact. Usually the immune system fights off the infection,
but in some people the virus persists and causes cancer.
There is no screening test for oropharyngeal cancers, no equivalent of
the Pap test used to find precancerous growths on the cervix, Dr.
Gillison said. Oropharyngeal cancers generally are not found until
symptoms start: lumpy, swollen lymph nodes in the neck, or a lingering
sore throat or earache.
Patients may need surgery, radiation or chemotherapy, or some
combination of those treatments.
“The side effects can be horrendous,” Dr. Gillison said. “It’s a very
difficult therapy to get through.”
Two vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, protect against HPV Type 16 and
other strains of the virus that cause cancers and genital warts. But
medical groups now recommend them only for girls, to protect against
cervical cancer.
Researchers think the vaccines might also prevent some throat cancers,
but cannot be sure unless the vaccines are specifically tested for
that purpose. The manufacturers — Merck and GlaxoSmithKline — say they
have no plans to study throat cancers. But Dr. Cullen said that the
vaccines were likely to prevent the throat cancers, and should be
given to boys too. He said he had no connection to vaccine companies.
Dr. Gillison said the vaccine companies had paid for her research in
the past, but had no role in this study, which was paid for by the
National Cancer Institute, Ohio State University and the Oral Cancer
Foundation.

[windinghighway]

On Oct 25, 12:56 am, M...@edu.edu wrote:
> Once again, we see someone being terribly upset about something that is
> vanishingly low in occurrange.>
> First, fight the big fights, then attack the threats that are 2 tenths
> of 1%.  Go fight for breast cancer or other forms of cancer which take
> at least 1%, then work on those that are below 1%.

If you were one of the 7000 American men or 15000 American women who
contract cancer from HPV every year, you might take a different
attitude. How would you feel, exactly, if you sought treatment for
one of these cancers, and the hospital told you -- sorry, that's so
rare, there's only 22,000 of you each year, we have better things to
do, bye now?

Do you have any idea how foolish, and how callous, you sound?

But if you are really so eager to attend to the "big fights", then
how about supporting circumcision as part of the strategy against
AIDS, as recommended by the WHO and other medical authorities? Here
we are talking about several million infections that could have been
avoided in the past, and many millions more that could be avoided in
the future, by the simple expedient of snipping off the foreskin. You
would support circumcision for THAT, right?

(Uh - no, he wont. Folks, if he answers at all, watch how fast he
changes his argument! Suddenly, the bigness of the fight will become
completely irrelevant! Because he's not really concerned about big
or little diseases, and he couldn't care less if people die of
foreskin-transmitted ones. His real issue is his love of foreskins,
which as far as he is concerned trumps any and all medical evidence
against them.)

>
> The sane person works on the worst problem first.

It that were true, all sane medical researchers would be working on
heart disease and cancer and wouldn't pay any attention to polio,
malaria, hiv, leprosy, genital warts, acne, or the common cold. Wise
up, silly billy.

>
> Only the insane or religious (not much difference) go out of their way
> to see or think about something they don't like.  Which are you?

Hmm. YOU go out of your way to think about circumcision, which is
something you don't like. Take a look at yourself, buddy.

[Darrin]

Yet skinfreaks like Freedom Man & Mack A. Damia continue sexualizing
this potentionally life-threatening scab o' skin. Once again, if
foreskin grew on fingers & toes, we wouldn't hear a peep from these
skinfreaks. They are unable to disassociate the foreskin from the
penis, which are two separate entities. Smegma must have made a U-turn
and seeped into their brains! LOL! -D, NYC "I like most Jews you talk
to nowadays...I was basically a good Jew until I went to synagogue and
got Bar-Mitzvahed. I pretty much forgot all about it. Then I would go
to the Temple just for the Oneg Shabbat. Where you get the wine &
danish (laughter). I'd go for the danish. I'd skip the service. Who
wants to hear that? The Rabbi...Cantor...nice guys. Where's the
danish?" eh - RON "The Hedgehog" JEREMY (b. Ron Jeremy Hyatt,
umpteenth sweet, Jewish NYer - #1 adult performer of all-time, excerpt
from "The Legend of Ron Jeremy")