middle-aged guys with HPV getting neck cancer (1 Viewer)

[leftcoastguy7]

Jason Mendelsohn had been married for close to 20 years and was happily raising three kids when he noticed the painless lump on his neck while shaving three years ago. Within days, he had been diagnosed with a deadly form of cancer caused by a virus that he probably caught while in college, decades before. Mendelsohn, now 48, is the classic victim of head and neck cancer caused by HPV, the human papillomavirus. A new study out this week shows there’s a silent epidemic of HPV-related cancers among men.

It’s a sexually transmitted infection and the more sex partners someone had, the bigger their risk. But the study found smoking also increased the danger of a high-risk infection, and, perhaps surprising to some, that men and women alike who smoked marijuana were far more likely to develop a cancer-causing strain of HPV.

Well, then I don't have to worry about it.

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[Nigel]

My 51 yo BIL is undergoing treatment for it now. Sucks but thankfully got it early. 

 

[RokNRole]

Isn't this what Michael Douglas got from eating snatch?

I eat snatch and smoke. I'm starting to worry.

 

[Rirruto]

It's either this or heart disease for me. 

 

[RokNRole]

It's either this or heart disease for me. 

Don't write off an a classic like colon cancer.