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In part, it may have to do with the increasing prevalence of anal sex. There are tentative links between HPV exposure and colon cancer. https://healthmatch.io
by A_D_E_P_T 3y ago
In part, it may have to do with the increasing prevalence of anal sex. There are tentative links between HPV exposure and colon cancer. https://healthmatch.io/colon-cancer/anal-sex https://healthmatch.io/colon-cancer/anal-sex
This is an extremely unpopular subject to research, though, for obvious reasons.
- josefresco 3y ago> increasing prevalence of anal sex Is there a citation for this?
- A_D_E_P_T 3y agoThis is an older one, but sure: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21707331/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21707331/ This is more recent, and describes anal sex as "[apparently] an increasingly common sexual practice": https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jocn.15628 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jocn.15628 And of course in the press: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/11/rise-in-popularity-of-anal-sex-has-led-to-health-problems-for-women https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/11/rise-in-popu...
- dehrmann 3y agoWouldn't you expect this to be obvious when you look at gender or sexual orientation of patients? HPV vaccines have been widely available since ~2010, so we should expect to see this trend drop for anyone born after ~1995.