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How Our Sex Habits May Affect Our HPV and Cancer Risk – The New York Times

Certain sex practices, at certain ages, increased the risk of throat cancers related to human papillomavirus.

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Almost 45 percent of patients had had more than 10 sexual partners during their lifetimes, compared with 19 percent of the cancer-free controls. People under 23 who had a sexual partner at least 10 years older were more likely to be infected, possibly because older people have had longer exposure to the virus.
Deep kissing was also associated with increased risk. Those who had 10 or more deep-kissing partners were more than twice as likely to have an HPV-related cancer as those who had none or one.

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