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Awareness of Polish undergraduate and graduate students regarding the impact of viral infections and high-risk sexual behaviors on the occurrence of oral cancer

With every passing year, more and more studies and observations demonstrate growing incidence of oral cancer, a decrease in patients’ age, and an increasing number of epidemiological factors. The aim of the study was to determine the level of awareness among undergraduate and graduate university stu...

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Autores principales: Lewandowski, Bogumił, Czenczek-Lewandowska, Ewelina, Pakla, Paweł, Frańczak, Jan, Piskadło, Tomasz, Migut, Małgorzata, Brodowski, Robert
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Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6203533/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30313122
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000012846
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author Lewandowski, Bogumił
Czenczek-Lewandowska, Ewelina
Pakla, Paweł
Frańczak, Jan
Piskadło, Tomasz
Migut, Małgorzata
Brodowski, Robert
author_facet Lewandowski, Bogumił
Czenczek-Lewandowska, Ewelina
Pakla, Paweł
Frańczak, Jan
Piskadło, Tomasz
Migut, Małgorzata
Brodowski, Robert
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description With every passing year, more and more studies and observations demonstrate growing incidence of oral cancer, a decrease in patients’ age, and an increasing number of epidemiological factors. The aim of the study was to determine the level of awareness among undergraduate and graduate university students regarding the incidence of oral cancer linked with viral infections and high-risk sexual behavior, including oral sex. Self-administered questionnaire-based survey was carried out among 196 Polish students aged 19 to 25 years. It was found that the young adults understood the meaning of human papillomavirus (HPV), but associated it only with the squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix. A total of 43.4% did not realize that there was any correlation between HPV infection and the development of oral cancer. The students who were aware of this correlation constituted 40.3% of the total. The majority of the participants, that is, 82 subjects (41.8%), did not associate the occurrence of malignant neoplasms of the oral cavity with oral sex. The study group did not present adequate awareness of the fact that occurrence of oral cancer may be associated with high-risk sexual behaviors. Knowledge of oral cancer was not significantly related to the level of university education (P < .005).
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spelling pubmed-62035332018-11-07 Awareness of Polish undergraduate and graduate students regarding the impact of viral infections and high-risk sexual behaviors on the occurrence of oral cancer Lewandowski, Bogumił Czenczek-Lewandowska, Ewelina Pakla, Paweł Frańczak, Jan Piskadło, Tomasz Migut, Małgorzata Brodowski, Robert Medicine (Baltimore) Research Article With every passing year, more and more studies and observations demonstrate growing incidence of oral cancer, a decrease in patients’ age, and an increasing number of epidemiological factors. The aim of the study was to determine the level of awareness among undergraduate and graduate university students regarding the incidence of oral cancer linked with viral infections and high-risk sexual behavior, including oral sex. Self-administered questionnaire-based survey was carried out among 196 Polish students aged 19 to 25 years. It was found that the young adults understood the meaning of human papillomavirus (HPV), but associated it only with the squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix. A total of 43.4% did not realize that there was any correlation between HPV infection and the development of oral cancer. The students who were aware of this correlation constituted 40.3% of the total. The majority of the participants, that is, 82 subjects (41.8%), did not associate the occurrence of malignant neoplasms of the oral cavity with oral sex. The study group did not present adequate awareness of the fact that occurrence of oral cancer may be associated with high-risk sexual behaviors. Knowledge of oral cancer was not significantly related to the level of university education (P < .005). Wolters Kluwer Health 2018-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6203533/ /pubmed/30313122 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000012846 Text en Copyright © 2018 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License 4.0 (CCBY-NC), where it is permissible to download, share, remix, transform, and buildup the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be used commercially without permission from the journal. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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Lewandowski, Bogumił
Czenczek-Lewandowska, Ewelina
Pakla, Paweł
Frańczak, Jan
Piskadło, Tomasz
Migut, Małgorzata
Brodowski, Robert
Awareness of Polish undergraduate and graduate students regarding the impact of viral infections and high-risk sexual behaviors on the occurrence of oral cancer
title Awareness of Polish undergraduate and graduate students regarding the impact of viral infections and high-risk sexual behaviors on the occurrence of oral cancer
title_full Awareness of Polish undergraduate and graduate students regarding the impact of viral infections and high-risk sexual behaviors on the occurrence of oral cancer
title_fullStr Awareness of Polish undergraduate and graduate students regarding the impact of viral infections and high-risk sexual behaviors on the occurrence of oral cancer
title_full_unstemmed Awareness of Polish undergraduate and graduate students regarding the impact of viral infections and high-risk sexual behaviors on the occurrence of oral cancer
title_short Awareness of Polish undergraduate and graduate students regarding the impact of viral infections and high-risk sexual behaviors on the occurrence of oral cancer
title_sort awareness of polish undergraduate and graduate students regarding the impact of viral infections and high-risk sexual behaviors on the occurrence of oral cancer
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6203533/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30313122
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000012846
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