Neither were smokers, yet 90% of people who had their types of throat cancer are smokers.

The next biggest factor was, as you stated, the hpv virus from performing oral sex on women. My family member (who is in his 70s) tested positive for it after they identified the cancer and the doctors did tell him it could have been a factor.

Now, the GOOD news is that if you have throat cancer and you also test positive for the hpv virus, the cancer/tumor generally responds better to treatment. Something about the combination of cancer WITH the hpv virus gives you better odds that people with cancer who DON'T have hpv. Sure enough, my family member went through treatment and it responded very well. His first post-treatment check-up was pretty clean. He has two more follow-ups.

Again, I'm not sure that hpv is the only cause, but it does remain a high factor in not only getting it, but how your treatment will respond.

http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/hpv/statistics/headneck.htm

New numbers show a dramatic increase in the numbers of HPV head & neck cancers in the last decade. This is also something to keep in mind when making your safer sex choices.

"Oropharyngeal cancer develops in the part of the throat just behind the mouth. The American Cancer Society estimates that 28,500 people in the United States are diagnosed with cancer of the oral cavity and oropharynx each year. While the incidence of head and neck cancer has been declining during the past 30 years, the rate of HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer is rapidly rising. Today, nearly 70 percent of oropharynx cancer cases are HPV-positive."

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-06/uotm-hts060710.php

" Head and neck cancer is the sixth most common cancer among men and women, with about 640,000 new cases each year worldwide.

A recent study found the risk of developing oropharyngeal carcinoma was linked to a history of six or more lifetime sexual partners, four or more lifetime oral sex partners, and, for men, an earlier age at first sexual intercourse....

HPV-related cancer was also reported in 60-80 percent of recent biopsy samples in studies in the United States, compared with 40 percent in the previous decade, they wrote."

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62P01Q20100326

Seriously, why hobby is your freaked out all the time. I would rather live ten years shorten and have a lot of orgasms then live ten years longer freaking out over everything. Milk is bad for us but we all drink it.

Do you realize all the hormones injected into cows?

I say eat pussy, and have a happy life.

First, do you KNOW how the HPV is spread to the throat? You ass-u-me it came from DATY. I suspect DATY is the primary vector, but neither of us has any data demonstrating it's the primary means of getting it.

Second, what is the throat HPV infection rate compared to the throat cancer rate? During the early days of the Swine flu outbreak, Charley Rose interviewed a public health official (can't remember if she was Mexican or CDC), and she kept emphasizing that we knew the numerator of seriously or dead swine flu cases, but we need the denominator (number of total cases) to make any conclusions about its threat.

Third, what is the total throat cancer rate, with or without HPV? You may be at higher risk regularly crossing streets in San Francisco (one of the highest pedestrian traffic death rates in the country) than contracting throat cancer...

You jumped to an unjustified conclusion with totally inadequate data simply because some "educator"w as more concerned with behavior modification than informing people so they can make their own informed decisions. Since you buy the "abstinence only" educational premise, you should go back to some combination of abstinence and monogamy. It's much less risk, and it matches your knowledge base.

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.