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What Is The Relation Between HPV And Throat Cancer?
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Hi i am tryingn to find more information on HPV and throat cancers for a class assignment. I would like to know specifically inwhat ways are these two linked. I know that they are linked through oral sex, but are the mucous membranes of the our bodies make HPV travel and grow faster?
Hi i am tryingn to find more information on HPV and throat cancers for a class assignment. I would like to know specifically inwhat ways are these two linked. I know that they are linked through oral sex, but are the mucous membranes of the our bodies make HPV travel and grow faster?
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Human paoilloma virus infection, type 16, and 18 could cause femal genital cancer and anal cancer in men & women. It does not cause throat cancer.
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