Throat cancer related to hpv

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Avatar n tn How long does HPV cancer generally take to progress/spread? Could it potentially spread from the throat area to the hard palate region? These will be my last questions and I am truly grateful for your time.
Avatar n tn Welcome to the forum. I'll try to help. There has been substantial media attention in the past 5 years about oral HPV (HPV-16 in particular) and its relationship to some oral cancers, some of it quite alarming. Some of the attention has referred broadly to "head and neck" cancer, but that's a broad category and really only one type, cancer of the throat, actually is related to HPV-16 and on the rise. But the bottom line is that the risks of cancer are extremely small.
Avatar f tn In 2005, a research study at the College of Malmö in Sweden suggested that performing unprotected oral sex on a person infected with HPV might increase the risk of oral cancer. The study found that 36 percent of the cancer patients had HPV compared to only 1 percent of the healthy control group.Another recent study suggests a correlation between oral sex and head and neck cancer.
Avatar f tn I have been reading that HPV is linked to throat cancer, so i am EXTREMELY worried and anxious!! I am going to the doctor next week. My questions are.... 1. My GYN told me I was now immune to the strain of HPV i have, even though I may be immune could i still get warts? 2. I thought low risk strains caused warts and high risk strains caused cancer. I had both warts and dysplasia....Is there a strain that can cause both? or do i have 2 strains? 3.
Avatar m tn First, the HPV types (primairly HPV -6 and -11) that cause warts are different from the one (HPV-16) associated with thoat cancer. Second, despite all the news reports about oral/throat cancer related to HPV, it amounts to only about 6,000 cases per year in the entire country -- a very rare cancer! In 30+ years in a busy STD clinic, I never once saw a patient with oral HPV the he or she caught from his or her own genital infection. It doesn't happen. Put HPV in perspective.
Avatar m tn But for the reasons already discussed, HPV related throat cancer is not something you should be worried about. Please re-read my responses above and concentrate on everything I said. That is all for this thread. I will have no further comments or advice.
Avatar n tn I would say not to worry about oral hpv, the main reason being the high-risk strains those live on genital areas do not like the oral enviornment and they do not survive well in there... Further, the throat cancer due to hpv is extremely low to rare and hpv is not the major cause of throat cancer but it can be a causitive factor... the tobacco use is the major cause of throat cancer...
Avatar m tn Doc - Just one brief follow up which I think is not much to ask for 20 bucks - If you are going to use all women who have ever had HPV-16 wouldnt you then have to calculate based on all the men that have ever had HPV related throat cancer - and not just the 6000 that get it a year? So wouldnt the numbers end up being the same?
Avatar n tn This is not the usual posts we get around here so it's really difficult to say. If I had to wager, I'd say the door throat isn't related to hpv, but I really wouldn't know. Curiously, what were his tonsil cancer symptoms? That quite rare, I thought.
Avatar f tn ) All people should have regular dental check-ups, and with the increasing knowledge about HPV and throat cancer, most dentists know what to look for to diagnose early cancer lesions -- and at early stages, most of these malignancies are easily treated. In fact, current research suggests that HPV-related throat cancer responds better to treatment than non-HPV-associated cancers.
Avatar f tn It helped to calm my fears and he talks about the same article I read which states high strain hpv (not the kind causing warts but the kind causing cervical cancer) is now a big factor in the rise of throat cancer. According to him less than 5% of people with high strain develop throat cancer. I can rest a little better now. Thanks again.
Avatar m tn Hello You did well with your english. You can send me a message, if you need this translation. I speak spanish. (Hablo espanol). But we post publicly so people don't have to ask the same questions or for educational purposes. First I want to say, I feel you should talk to a therapist about all this as there is some underlying reason why you are thinking about throat cancer. I say this to help you. I hope you do. The answers to your questions are: 1.
Avatar m tn HPV can be related to cervical cancer but certainly not bone cancer.
Avatar f tn most doctors won't even consider hpv as a cause of a sore throat. so many more common causes of it. usually it's irritation from sinusitis, allergies or GERD. the rates of oral hpv infection are rather low thankfully. the rates of head and neck cancers due to hpv are also rather low thankfully. this is part of why we don't routinely test for hpv either orally or genitally to be honest.
Avatar n tn org/posts/STDs/HPV-Oral-Cancer/show/1624567 Perhaps most important, your immunization against HPV protects you from the single HPV type associated with throat cancer (HPV-16) -- so even if your partner has HPV-16, you are not at risk of catching it from her, either orally or genitally. Her HPV/CIN should have absolutely no bearing on your sexual activities together -- no need to avoid any contact of any kind, no need for condoms.
Avatar m tn My great worry now is that is this sore throat related to hpv as hpv can also cause head and neck cancer. I will be glad if someone can help me on it.
Avatar f tn Second, here is from another website (Web MD) about research showing that someone whose throat cancer did come from HPV is not likely to spread it to his or her kissing partners. "Spouses and long-term partners of patients with HPV-related oral cancers appear to have no increased risk of oral HPV infections, according to the results of a new study led by Johns Hopkins investigators.
Avatar n tn In the entire US, there are only about 6,000 cases of oral or throat cancer per year that are due to HPV-16, the main genital type that has been implicated; and those occur almost exclusively in people age 50 and over. And it is not at all certain that those people acquired their oral HPV through oral sex. (If one of the articles that concerns you is the one by Dr. Bernadine Healy, former head of the NIH, please disregard it.
Avatar m tn The same prostitute gave me genital HPV at the time. I did perform oral on her, so it is very likely I contracted the same virus on the throat as well. The link above says "coughing blood" is a symptom of throat HPV which happened to me as I mentioned. So?
Avatar m tn With only 10,000 cases per year in the entire US, probablly most dentists never even see any patients with HPV related throat cancer; and screening and early diagnosis have never been shown to make any difference in prevention of rare cancers, only the common ones (e.g. colon, breast, cervix). But for now CDC and virtually all other such agencies and experts recommend against informing partners. We'll see what evolves over the next few years, however.
Avatar n tn Yes, HPV can infect the throat and it may be related to cancer of the throat (not the mouth) HOWEVER, the risks for these cancers appear to be influenced far, far more by previously described risk factor such as smoking (this is the biggest one) and heavy drinking. The contribution of HPV to cancer of the throat remains unquantified and is at most only a small fraction of the cotribution due to smoking and heavy drinking. 2.
Avatar f tn I honestly think I have oral cancer and I know hpv is related to it.. I have had every symptom you can think of.. Lump in throat feeling, a lump on my gum, fever and itchy burning throat, my throat gets scratchy to where my voice changes.. My jaw pops and clicks when I open my mouth my face and jaw was hurting so bad I could barley open my mouth I had night and day sweats and a couple of days where I'm not hungry and headaches.. Does anyone have any advice could this really be oral cancer?