By Dr. Hisham Mehanna, an oncologist at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Eighty percent of men and women engage in oral sex at some time in their life,
According to a research conducted by Dr. Mehanna. Additionally, polls indicate that those rates are increasing, especially for women.
“Fortunately, only a small number of those people develop oropharyngeal cancer,” Dr. Mehanna wrote in the Conversation. The reason for this is unclear.
The general consensus is that the majority of us acquire HPV infections and are able to fully recover from them.
Nevertheless, a tiny percentage of individuals are unable to eradicate the infection, maybe as a result of a weakness in a specific immune system component.
“The virus can replicate continuously in those patients and gradually integrates into the host’s DNA at random locations, some of which can lead to the development of cancerous host cells.”
