Young people ages 15 to 24 were responsible for nearly half of the 26 million new STD infections in 2018. In 2021, researchers discovered that people with 10 or more oral sex partners were more than four times more likely to develop HPV-related mouth and throat cancers.Īccording to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 41% of teens from 15 to 19 participate in oral sex. HPV accounts for an estimated 70% of oropharyngeal cancers, per the CDC. Past studies have shown that multiple sexual partners could increase the risk of catching HPV and, in turn, developing mouth or throat cancer.
The CDC estimates that 70% of oropharyngeal cancers - which affect the tonsils, base of the tongue and back of the throat - are caused by HPV infection in the US. “For oropharyngeal cancer, the main risk factor is the number of lifetime sexual partners, especially oral sex,” he wrote for the Conversation Tuesday.Ĭases of HPV-linked oropharyngeal cancer, a type of throat cancer, rose annually by 1.3% in women and 2.8% in men from 2015 to 2019, according to the American Cancer Society. Oral sex is the X-rated culprit behind a wave of throat cancer cropping up in the US, fueling a so-called “epidemic.”Īccording to Hisham Mehanna, a professor at the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences at the University of Birmingham, the human papillomavirus is to blame. WHO launches strategy to expedite end of cervical cancer Oral sex with multiple partners linked to HPV cancers 42M have HPV - and it causes more cancers than you realize: discoveryĬervical cancer could be eradicated as HPV vaccine slashes 90 percent of cases
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