{"id":2550,"date":"2025-05-07T11:01:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T11:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/oral-sex-frequency-raises-throat-cancer-risk\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T11:01:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T11:01:55","slug":"oral-sex-frequency-raises-throat-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/oral-sex-frequency-raises-throat-cancer-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Oral sex frequency raises throat cancer risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-05-07 11:01:54<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>People who have had oral sex with more than six partners in their lives are nearly 10 times more likely to get throat cancer.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Hisham Mehanna, an expert in the disease at the University of Birmingham, explained that seven in 10 throat cancers are caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) &#8211; a normally harmless virus that is spread through sexual contact and has been linked to causing changes in cells that can become cancerous.<BR><br \/>\nWriting for The Conversation, Dr. Mehanna said: &#8220;Over the past two decades, there has been a rapid increase in throat cancer in the West, to the extent that some have called it an epidemic.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;This has been due to a large rise in a specific type of throat cancer called oropharyngeal cancer.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nDr. Mehanna explained that those with several oral sex partners are at increased risk of oropharyngeal cancer &#8211; the most common type of the disease that appears in the tonsils and the back of the throat.<BR><br \/>\nHe said: &#8220;For oropharyngeal cancer, the main risk factor is the number of lifetime sexual partners, especially oral sex.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Those with six or more lifetime oral-sex partners are 8.5 times more likely to develop oropharyngeal cancer than those who do not practice oral sex.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-05-07 11:01:54 People who have had oral sex with more than six partners in their lives are nearly 10 times more likely to get throat cancer. Dr. Hisham Mehanna, an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2552,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions\/2552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}