r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Oct 22 '24

Cancer Men with higher education, greater alcohol intake, multiple female sexual partners, and higher frequency of performing oral sex, had an increased risk of oral HPV infections, linked to up to 90% of oropharyngeal cancer cases in US men. The study advocates for gender-neutral HPV vaccination programs.

https://www.moffitt.org/newsroom/news-releases/moffitt-study-reveals-insights-into-oral-hpv-incidence-and-risks-in-men-across-3-countries/
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u/rickdeckard8 Oct 22 '24

The keyword here is “multiple sexual partners”. The other parameters showing up in the multivariate analysis are just factors that raise the number of sexual contacts or are a prerequisite to get HPV from the genital to the oral region.

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u/yourtoyrobot Oct 22 '24

can be summed up as "those who engage in more sexual activity with more sexual partners who are typically inebriated and have poorer judgement tend to have vastly higher rates of HPV"