Oral sex, cancer and death: sexually transmitted cancers
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Oral sex, cancer and death: sexually transmitted cancers
We briefly highlight the growing body of recent evidence linking unprotected oral sex with the development of some types of head and neck cancer in younger patients. These tumours appear to be increasing in incidence although the development of more sensitive methods of HPV detection may be a confounding factor.
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عنوان ژورنال: Head & Neck Oncology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1758-3284
DOI: 10.1186/1758-3284-4-31