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Besides obesity, the report points to another potential growing cause of
cancer – HPV. The report finds that two cancers on the rise,
head and neck cancer and anal
cancer, are caused by HPV. “HPV-associated cancers accounted for 3.3 percent of all cancer cases among women and 2 percent of the total cancer cases among men diagnosed in 2009,” the report reads. That adds up to 21,000 women and more than 13,000 men diagnosed with these cancers.