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>Mendelsohn, now 48, is the classic victim of head and neck cancer caused by HPV, the human papillomavirus. A new study out this week shows there’s a silent epidemic of HPV-related cancers among men.
>A team at the University of Florida, Baylor College of Medicine and elsewhere found that 18.5 percent of U.S. men were actively infected with oral HPV between 2011 and 2014, and 34 percent of women were. That adds up to 16 million men and 23 million women, the researchers report in the Annals of Internal Medicine
>“The predicted probability of high-risk oral HPV infection was greatest among black participants, those who smoked more than 20 cigarettes daily, and those who reported 30 or more lifetime anal or oral sex partners,” the researchers wrote.
>“There are now more of these HPV-related throat cancers in men than there are cervical cancers in women,” said Dr. Erich Sturgis, professor of head and neck surgery at the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas.
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>Dr. Afshin Bahador said more than 80 percent of women in the U.S. will acquire at least fifteen strains of HPV by age 30.
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>Different strains of HPV can cause six types of cancers, including cervical, vulvar, vaginal, penile, anal and oral/oropharyngeal cancers. It is estimated that by 2020, HPV-related oral cancers in men will surpass cervical cancer in women.
>Gardasil and Cervarix, vaccines designed to prevent infection from certain types of HPV do not protect against strains that are known to cause oral and penile cancers.