A lovely new way to die!
May. 10th, 2007 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsWe all know about the link between the papilloma virus and cervical cancer, right? More bad news:
People who have had more than five oral-sex partners in their lifetime are 250% more likely to have throat cancer than those who do not have oral sex, a new study suggests.
The researchers believe this is because oral sex may transmit human papillomavirus (HPV), the virus implicated in the majority of cervical cancers.
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Date: 2007-05-10 09:50 pm (UTC)Don't trust news reporting on statistics: it's math and thus hard work. Somebody's not reporting the error bars on those results. They never do.
Anyway, I think, "Virus in hole linked to cancer in hole: so what's new?"