HPV linked to breast cancer and “raft” of others
No major news organization aside from UPI, which wrote a very short blurb that was run by only small outlets, has picked up on the June 10 story in London’s The Independent, which disclosed:
HPV, a virus that can be transmitted by sex, may be implicated in breast and a raft of other cancers, according to a series of new research findings.
The virus, already implicated in most cervical cancers, may play a role in a number of other malignancies, and may be involved in a three-fold increase in tonsil cancer.
HPV, or human papilloma virus, has been linked to cancers of the larynx and skin, as well as malignancies of the vulva, vagina, penis, anus and mouth….
One theory with breast cancer is that the virus may interact in some way with oestrogen….
A second study found that younger women were more likely to be positive for HPV. They found that the average age of women with HPV-positive breast cancer was 55.6 years compared with 63.8 for women with HPV- negative breast cancer….
HPV is being found increasingly in other cancer tissue. Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm said the virus is found in sizeable proportions of tonsillar cancer….
At the University Hospitals, Liverpool, researchers have reported the discovery of HPV in oesophageal cancers….
A team from Memorial Hospital in Taiwan have found the virus in other cancers too: “Results strongly suggest that HPV may play a major role in the carcinogenesis of urogenital and perianal tumors.”
Researchers at Kagoshima University in Japan examined 36 lung cancers and found the presence of HPV in 28 per cent of the cases.
A report on HPV from the International Agency for Research on Cancer says that one HPV virus is associated with a number of cancers.
“For human papilloma virus 16, data show a causal role in cancer of the vulva, vagina, penis, anus, oral cavity, and oropharynx, and some association with cancer of the larynx and periungual skin,” it says.
I count 15 cancers aside from cervical that may associated with HPV, or put another way, 15 more vaccines for big pharma to manufacture and push for mandates on school children for billions of dollars each in windfall profits.
Anal? Makes me wonder if Farrah Fawcett has a history HPV. If so, this would make a worthy crusade.
Penis? Maybe now men’s interest will perk.
One other finding to highlight from 4th paragraph: estrogen may potentiate HPV to cause breast cancer, yet another reason not to take oral contraceptives.
Wouldn’t it just be easier to abstain from sex until and within marriage? Is illicit sexual activity really worth dying for?
[Hat tip: Rakman]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Jill, the problem with waiting until marriage is that if our partner hasnt, you can still get HPV. There isnt a test as of now to tell if a male has it or not, they are just “carriers” of HPV. Not to mention, just b/c someone is married doesnt automatically mean they are going to be faithful. They can cheat on their wife/husband and then pass the disease onto them. Also, I’ve never heard that BC pills are linked to breast cancer, could you please give me a link with some statistics? But not all women are on BC pills for the sole reason of sex. I got put on them @ 14 (with my mother’s consent) b/c I need them for a medical reason (I still do). So it really isnt a issue if I have sex or not, b/c I need them for medical reasons.
Just my thoughts though…
“Wouldn’t it just be easier to abstain from sex until and within marriage? Is illicit sexual activity really worth dying for?”
easier? I don’t know. Better? absolutely not. There is nothing wrong with sex within marriage, but it’s not the only place for sex. What about the people who don’t get married until the age of 30? Are you really suggesting no sex in the 20s? That would be a shame. Or people who get married young and are divorced by 30, are their sex lives over?
There are many ways to die. The risk of dying from sex is there, but is small.
Your question is like asking “Is driving a car really worth dying for? Wouldn’t it just be easier if everyone walked everywhere they wanted to go?” Sure it would, but it makes no sense. We chose to drive despite the risks because of the benefits. Same with sex.
My mom supports abstinence until marriage. I remind her daily that she got married at 19, so it wasn’t that long of a wait for her.
Sorry, I’m not interested in getting married this year.
We take so many risks every day in every other part of our lives. I wanted to work with lethal infectious diseases (before I realized the math was going to kill me) and that’s a significant threat to my health. But, wonder of wonders, if I wanted to work with smallpox, I could get vaccinated! Imagine that.
Reminds me of a similar HPV vaccine…
Jill,
I can’t help but note that you didn’t say which strain of HPV was associated with breast cancer. (Nor did the article you cited) Do you know which it was? Since not all of the over 100 strains of HPV are sexually transmitted (just over 30 are), I think it is important to know which strain has been linked with breast cancer (and, as the article states, lung cancer as well).
That said, I’m not disputing that sexually transmitted strains of HPV can cause a variety of cancers. (And that other strains of HPV cause cancers as well) But some people are just fine with taking risks, and I see nothing wrong with that as long as they are aware of the facts. As far as I’m concerned, I would much rather enjoy life while I have it rather than constantly worrying about prolonging it. I’ll take proper precautions when I can, but, as Hal noted, there is no point in holing oneself up in one’s house to avoid every potentially life threatening thing out there.
Midnite, the link to info on the estrogen/breast cancer link begins here: https://www.jillstanek.com/archives/2007/05/fish_ingesting.html.
Diana, all the information I know is from the linked Independent article.
Jen, 10:24a, said: “We take so many risks every day in every other part of our lives…. But, wonder of wonders, if I wanted to work with smallpox, I could get vaccinated! Imagine that.
Reminds me of a similar HPV vaccine…”
Yes, one of the points of my post, Jen. Did you read it all the way through? You’re up to needing 16 HPV vaccinations total… well, 15 for you…. you won’t need the HPV vaccination guarding against penis cancer.
Jill –
How much money is going to Africa right now? What is that money used for? right – to treat AIDS. Not just to ‘prevent’ it, but to ‘treat’ it. I read a story in Time Magazine in 1999 or 2000 that had a story about STD’s and South Africa. The men that were quoted in that article sound alot like the responses you have received here.
I call it the “don’t wanna can’t make me” mentality. It doesn’t matter who may get hurt; what matters is that “I” had fun.
And remember, since there is someone out there who is not going to follow the ‘rules’ (“just b/c someone is married doesnt automatically mean they are going to be faithful. They can cheat on their wife/husband and then pass the disease onto them.”) then no one should follow the ‘rules’, right?
And remember, since there is someone out there who is not going to follow the ‘rules’ (“just b/c someone is married doesnt automatically mean they are going to be faithful. They can cheat on their wife/husband and then pass the disease onto them.”) then no one should follow the ‘rules’, right?
That’s exactly what I thought when I saw that quote.
The logic is so strange.
I have absolutely zero interest in waiting until marriage. I want to make sure the parachute is there before jumping out of the plane, so to speak: sex is a large component of any healthy relationship for me, and I’m not waiting to have that intimacy because there’s a risk of dying. There’s a risk of dying when I drive, should I stop doing that as well?
There are reasons besides contraception that people are on the pill, and I don’t think you’ve acknowledged this. I am, first and foremost, on the pill for medical reasons. The fact that it prevents pregnancy is only secondary for me. This will continue once I marry, as marriage, just as it isn’t a sudden marker of readiness to have sex, isn’t a sudden cure for all diseases that would make me take a birth control pill.
As to your “don’t wanna can’t make me” mentality, Valerie, you’re neglecting to mention that the only people who get hurt during sex are the two consenting people who engage in it. They understand this, why should your “rules” interfere with their lives?
Over ten years ago, there were at least 80 HPV strains, and most everyone has several. Who knows how many they’ve identified by now. Most people, by their twenties, are infected with at least 1 of the 4 sexually transmitted strains, and I don’t think they all engaged in penetration. I suspect it transmits rather easily from hands and rubbing, etc…
Over ten years ago, there were at least 80 HPV strains, and most everyone has several. Who knows how many they’ve identified by now. Most people, by their twenties, are infected with at least 1 of the 4 sexually transmitted strains
Oh well then, that makes it okay…I mean as long as everyone has it…
Less –
“As to your “don’t wanna can’t make me” mentality, Valerie, you’re neglecting to mention that the only people who get hurt during sex are the two consenting people who engage in it. They understand this, why should your “rules” interfere with their lives? ”
I can’t believe you said that. Only two people? Really? This from the person who says she has no problems with ripping an unborn baby apart because she doesn’t want kids. That would be a third person that would get hurt. What about the people who love the couple? Family and close friends? Are you saying they don’t get hurt if you end up with a STD or AIDS? I know that many people were hurting right along with me when Danny was born prematurly and all my miscarriages. They hurt and they had absolutley nothing to do with the sex.
What a lonely life you must lead.
And as for the “testing” the parachute – why would you assume that just because you didn’t have sex before marriage that it wouldn’t be good? Communication with your partner will make sex good. I tell my husband what I want, he tells me what he wants and we have great sex. It is much better now than what it was when we first had sex. Time also makes good sex. The longer you are with someone, the more open and trusting you become and it is awsome. You aren’t going to know if you will have this just because you tested the parachute. Being with someone for 10 years will tell you if you will be happy with your sex life. You say you are happy with it now – wait. If you communicate, give enough time and trust the person with all your mind and body you will have the best sex of your life. But that doesn’t come overnight. It takes years.
Valerie, my sex life is none of anyone else
And as for the “testing” the parachute – why would you assume that just because you didn’t have sex before marriage that it wouldn’t be good? Communication with your partner will make sex good. I tell my husband what I want, he tells me what he wants and we have great sex. It is much better now than what it was when we first had sex. Time also makes good sex. The longer you are with someone, the more open and trusting you become and it is awsome. You aren’t going to know if you will have this just because you tested the parachute. Being with someone for 10 years will tell you if you will be happy with your sex life. You say you are happy with it now – wait. If you communicate, give enough time and trust the person with all your mind and body you will have the best sex of your life. But that doesn’t come overnight. It takes years.
Valerie, 100 percent agreed.
Always some laughs to be found from the lbrls:
I wanted to work with lethal infectious diseases (before I realized the math was going to kill me) and that’s a significant threat to my health.
That’s from Jen, and Yeah we Know lbrls can’t do math!
Valerie, you’re neglecting to mention that the only people who get hurt during sex are the two consenting people who engage in it.
This lbrl (Less) doesn’t do economics. She doesn’t know about the pooled risk of health insurance, so if she gets a disease…. she doesn’t know that Everyone in her pool of insurance beneficiaries pays also. HIV, for example, is a half million dollar death process for nearly all U.S. residents who contract it. The treatment for chronic suppression of Herpes simplex is also very expensive.
Always some laughs to be found from the lbrls:
I wanted to work with lethal infectious diseases (before I realized the math was going to kill me) and that’s a significant threat to my health.
That’s from Jen, and Yeah we Know lbrls can’t do math!
Valerie, you’re neglecting to mention that the only people who get hurt during sex are the two consenting people who engage in it.
This lbrl (Less) doesn’t do economics. She doesn’t know about the pooled risk of health insurance, so if she gets a disease…. she doesn’t know that Everyone in her pool of insurance beneficiaries pays also. HIV, for example, is a half million dollar death process for nearly all U.S. residents who contract it. The treatment for chronic suppression of Herpes
simplex is also very expensive. And without math, how can a person understand that other people pay for risky activities besides the participants?
Valerie, my sex life is none of anyone else?s business. :
This laugh is also from Less, who then proceeds to tell strangers that she likes the weird stuff.
I’m quite sexually open, and partake in a few different activities that are beyond the norm, and take a different type of person to enjoy.
Information overload!
Yeah, they’re good for amusement sometimes.
KB
Oh dear, someone
Yeah and you know what else is funny about that last quote by Less, KB? In another thread she mentioned how she is “abstaining” with her fiancee, and the only thing they do is “kiss” and “pet”. If this is true, is this what she considers to be “sexual activities beyond the norm”? Somethings not adding up here.
And I do find it hilarious, as you do ,that she says on one hand that her sex life is no ones business, then she goes on to tell everyone about the details of her sex life! Go figure!
Bethany, sexual activities beyond the norm would generally involve things that aren’t “vanilla,” so to speak. For instance: missionary position would be “vanilla.” Some other positions, less so. Sexual activities beyond the norm would be something that not everyone has done, or would want to do. Another example: most people have a certain set of limitations, a line that they will not cross, for example. I don’t particularly have that line.
If I went into details, I”m quite sure my post would be deleted, and for fairly good reason. I don’t mind telling people about my sex life, that’s not what I mean when I say it isn’t anyone’s business. I mean that it isn’t anyone’s place to judge what I do or do not do.
Bethany, sexual activities beyond the norm would generally involve things that aren’t “vanilla,” so to speak
Oh I NEVER would have guessed that, Less.
Sexual activities beyond the norm would be something that not everyone has done, or would want to do.
Shocker.
So….are you trying to tell me you’re not really abstaining?
I’m not having sex, but you don’t have to be having sex to be inventive! Besides, I am 200% not a virgin. I have the experience to know what I enjoy.
lol okay Less.
KB,
Please refrain from derogatory comments so you don’t look like a fool.
Thanks,
Kate