Oral sex at the origin of an “epidemic” of throat cancer?
In Western countries, oropharyngeal cancers, which affect the back of the throat or the amygdala, have been growing very significantly over the past twenty years. Main cause of this explosion of cases: HPV viruses, which are transmitted in particular during orogenital intercourse. About a third of oropharyngeal cancers are now caused not by tobacco or … Read more