27
Jan
Jan
Study Says Oral HPV Infections More Common in Men
A recent study reveals that oral human papillomavirus infections are more common among men than women.
About seven percent of the US population age 14-69 has oral HPV, said the research in the Journal of the American Medical Association, with a prevalence rate of 10.1 percent among men and 3.6 percent among women.
The findings shed more light on a growing epidemic of HPV-linked head and neck cancers which are expected to eclipse cervical cancer cases by 2020, and cou…
