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70% of throat cancers? In a world with cigarettes and chewing tobacco? I find that a very surprising number - so surprising it's almost unbelievable. Got a s
by AnimalMuppet 10mo ago
70% of throat cancers? In a world with cigarettes and chewing tobacco? I find that a very surprising number - so surprising it's almost unbelievable.
Got a source?
- tokai 10mo ago"Currently, the estimated proportion of oropharyngeal cancers testing positive for HPV within the United States is 68%–70%"[0] [0] https://www.asha.org/practice-portal/clinical-topics/head-and-neck-cancer/#collapse_8 https://www.asha.org/practice-portal/clinical-topics/head-an...
- tialaramex 10mo agoThink of it as shared responsibility. The tobacco and the virus are both reasons why you got cancer and died, prizes for all. So maybe 70% of throat cancer victims have HPV, and like 70% smoked - and if those were independent facts you'd expect that about 49% both smoked and had HPV, but it's actually more than half 'cos it turns out that if you have HPV then smoking is even worse. So that's nice.