The latest national estimates of this disparity, published in October, from Deshmukh and his University of Florida colleagues, reveals that oral HPV infection rates are skewed by gender, just like the resulting cancers.

Now Dr. Bhavin Visavdia, consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon, at the Watford Road hospital, said the human papillomavirus (HPV) can be found in the female cervix.

According to him, this has brought about changes in legislation that will see men receive a jab to protect them against the cancer-causing virus.

Dr. Visavdia reports of the rise in the number of patients with head and neck cancer as part of Make Sense, a national awareness week.

He said: “There has been a noticeable increase in recent years and oropharyngeal cancer can be triggered by contracting HPV which is a common cause of cervical cancer in women.

“MouthAction is the obvious candidate for transmission to men as the virus is found in the female cervix.”

Dr. Visavadia said the condition, which has been associated with older men who are heavy drinkers and smokers, is increasingly affecting younger men in their 40’s and 50’s.

He added: “Women are routinely immunized against HPV for cervical cancer but recent legislative changes will now see men receive a jab as well to prevent HPV related head and neck cancer.”

Research in Annals of Oncology showed 15 percent of men who smoked and had five or more MouthAction partners were most likely to get HPV but smokers with few partners are also vulnerable to infection.

The lowest risk group is non-smokers who had one or no MouthAction partners in their lifetimes, with only 1.5pc of them getting an oral HPV infection.

Read more: https://www.modernghana.com/news/886438/oral-sex-causes-head-throat-and-neck-cancer.html

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