Must Read: Men face higher risk of cancers linked to oral s3x

Men are twice as likely as women to get cancer of the mouth and throat linked to the human papillomavirus, or HPV, one of the most common s3xually transmitted infections, researchers say.

For men, the risk of HPV-driven cancers of the head and neck rise along with the number of MouthAction partners, researchers said Friday at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting in the US capital.

Nearly two out of three of these oral cancers in the United States and most western nations are caused by infection with the HPV 16 strain of the virus, and incidence of cancer is on the rise in recent years, said Gypsyamber D’Souza, who teaches epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Middle aged white men are at particularly high risk compared to other races.

She said her research shows that youths are engaging in oral s3x at increasingly young ages, compared to past generations.

“Our research shows that for men, the number of oral s3x partners — as that number increases, the risk of an oral HPV infection increases,” she told reporters.

But with women, the number of s3xual partners does not appear to raise

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