Oral sex, cancer and death: sexually transmitted cancers

We briefly highlight the growing body of recent evidence linking unprotected oral sex with the development of some types of head and neck cancer in younger patients. These tumours appear to be increasing in incidence although the development of more sensitive methods of HPV detection may be a confou...

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Autores principales: Upile, Tahwinder, Jerjes, Waseem, Al-Khawalde, Mohammed, Radhi, Hani, Sudhoff, Holger
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3448502/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22673108
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-3284-4-31
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spelling pubmed-34485022012-09-22 Oral sex, cancer and death: sexually transmitted cancers Upile, Tahwinder Jerjes, Waseem Al-Khawalde, Mohammed Radhi, Hani Sudhoff, Holger Head Neck Oncol Review We briefly highlight the growing body of recent evidence linking unprotected oral sex with the development of some types of head and neck cancer in younger patients. These tumours appear to be increasing in incidence although the development of more sensitive methods of HPV detection may be a confounding factor. BioMed Central 2012-06-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3448502/ /pubmed/22673108 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-3284-4-31 Text en Copyright © 2012 Upile et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Oral sex, cancer and death: sexually transmitted cancers
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3448502/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-3284-4-31
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