A medical study has revealed that kissing can cause cancer. Kissing has overtaken
smoking and drinking as the leading risk factor for developing head and neck
cancers. The humble French kiss can pass on human papilloma virus (HPV), and
Head of Maxillofacial and Head and neck Surgery at the Royal Darwin Hospital,
Dr Mahiban Thomas, said the virus was responsible for a ‘tsunami’ of cancer
cases.
Dr Thomas told NT News
if you became infected by HPV in the oropharynx, your risk of developing head
and neck cancer was 250 times higher than that of someone without the virus.
While most commonly associated with cervical cancers in women, HPV can affect
both men and women. There are more than 100 types of the virus, but it is ‘Oral
HPV’ that can cause cancers in the oropharynx.
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention said studies suggested Oral HPV could be passed on
during oral sex or open-mouthed or ‘French’ kissing, and about 7% of people
have oral HPV, but only 1% of people have the type of oral HPV that is found in
oropharyngeal cancers.
‘’High-risk behaviours
are oral sex, multiple kissing partners, and more recently there are reports
even ‘petting’ can lead to infection. “If someone has kissed in
excess of six people their risk of contracting HPV is higher, or if someone has
kissed in excess of nine people the risk is significantly higher again,” Dr
Thomas told NT News.
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