1 in 4 US men have cancer-linked HPV genital infections
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[quote]The first national estimate suggests that nearly half of U.S. men have genital infections caused by a sexually transmitted virus and that 1 in 4 has strains linked with several cancers.
Most human papillomavirus infections cause no symptoms and most disappear without treatment. And most adults will get an HPV infection at some point in their lives.
But high-risk HPV can cause cancer in the mouth and upper throat, cervical cancer in women and other cancers. Less harmful strains can cause genital warts.
Vaccines can prevent infections but experts say vaccination rates in pre-teens and young adults are too low. High-risk HPV poses cancer risks to people who are infected and to their sexual partners, who can catch HPV even when the infections are silent.
The study "just underscores that you need to vaccinate boys as well as girls, " said Debbie Saslow, an HPV specialist at the American Cancer Society.
The new estimate comes from an analysis of a 2013-14 national health survey; nearly 2,000 men aged 18 to 59 were tested for HPV. Results were published Thursday in the journal JAMA Oncology . The researchers say it's the first published estimate for genital HPV infections in men. The 45 percent rate is higher than previously reported rates for women, said Dr. Jasmine Han, the lead author and a cancer specialist at Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.[/quote]
[url]https://www.yahoo.com/news/1-4-us-men-cancer-linked-hpv-genital-163544678.html[/url]
1 out of 4 men have killer dicks.
Wow.
you heard it here first, ladies, my dick is 100% guaranteed to not give you cancer
Time to increase vaccinations for that.
Huge program for girls and women in Australia, but none for men.
[QUOTE=DogGunn;51696840]Time to increase vaccinations for that.
Huge program for girls and women in Australia, but none for men.[/QUOTE]
Didn't they just recently approve the HPV vaccine for men?
[QUOTE=purvisdavid1;51696820]1 out of 4 men have killer dicks.
Wow.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;51696825]you heard it here first, ladies, my dick is 100% guaranteed to not give you cancer[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Svinnik;51696876]Didn't they just recently approve the HPV vaccine for men?[/QUOTE]
i'm the fourth american poster ITT
so which one of us is it?
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;51696889]Half of U.S. males have a sexually transmitted virus? Isn't that kinda really high? Like epidemic-levels?[/QUOTE]
I have it, Men are asymptomatic so it's not a big deal. you'll eventually get it if you have enough unprotected sex, only shows that men need the gardasil shot as much as women.
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;51696889]Half of U.S. males have a sexually transmitted virus? Isn't that kinda really high? Like epidemic-levels?[/QUOTE]
From what I understand, men don't get symptoms. That's why I'm super glad for a study like this. Just because men don't really have to "worry" doesn't mean we shouldn't be looking into preventing the spread. My aunt died from HPV-caused cancer, and I'm really thankful I got the vaccine.
Though, I've heard they're now recommending re-vaccinations. Anyone heard about it?
Good thing I never had sex. Totally by choice, not because I'm ugly and narcissistic.
[QUOTE=Svinnik;51696876]Didn't they just recently approve the HPV vaccine for men?[/QUOTE]
Something like 5-8? Years ago
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;51696889]Half of U.S. males have a sexually transmitted virus? Isn't that kinda really high? Like epidemic-levels?[/QUOTE]
Obviously this is the clear result of lack of education. Better rev up the funding for some school abstinence programs. That oughta fix it.
Yep.
Definitely.
[QUOTE=Svinnik;51696876]Didn't they just recently approve the HPV vaccine for men?[/QUOTE]
It's been around for a while, I remember getting it 4-5 years ago.
I got an HPV vaccine a couple years back (I'm a college-age guy), as a precaution after hearing about similar findings from my doctor and my family; guess that was a good precaution to take...
[QUOTE=Swiket;51696886]i'm the fourth american poster ITT
so which one of us is it?[/QUOTE]
Facepunch might be [I]slightly[/I] under the national average when it comes to anything sexually transmitted.
[QUOTE=Duck M.;51696984]Facepunch might be [I]slightly[/I] under the national average when it comes to anything sexually transmitted.[/QUOTE]
H..ha ha... y-yeah. Slightly.....
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;51696889]Half of U.S. males have a sexually transmitted virus? Isn't that kinda really high? Like epidemic-levels?[/QUOTE]
I've always thought that. It's extremely odd to me that nearly half of Americans are diseased, but nobody mentions it. Everyone just ignores it or acts like it's normal. Really weird, kinda creepy, like something from a movie.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;51697001]I've always thought that. It's extremely odd to me that nearly half of Americans are diseased, but nobody mentions it. Everyone just ignores it or acts like it's normal. Really weird, kinda creepy, like something from a movie.[/QUOTE]
Men get away with a lot.
[QUOTE=Svinnik;51696876]Didn't they just recently approve the HPV vaccine for men?[/QUOTE]
It's been approved since the beginning I believe. But the move towards men being immunised hasn't been acted on until recently.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;51697001]I've always thought that. It's extremely odd to me that nearly half of Americans are diseased, but nobody mentions it. Everyone just ignores it or acts like it's normal. Really weird, kinda creepy, like something from a movie.[/QUOTE]
One third of the world population is infected with Tuberculosis, but something like 90% of the population are naturally immune, and most TB carriers never manifest symptoms and it never becomes pathologically active for them. This is a large part of why it is so widespread -- we don't even notice unless it makes us sick. TB also has a long delay between the time it becomes infectious and before it becomes aggressive and symptoms appear, meaning every active-symptoms TB diagnosis is potentially a mini-outbreak already in progress. Happened when I was working at a call center; guy was in training, and then one day he's in quarantine and the municipal health authority is scheduling a TB outbreak assessment of the entire employee list, all 400+ people.
Our bodies are not the perfectly clean, unimpeachable temples that we think; we're deeply complex and imperfect biological machines and a lot of weird shit gets in us and doesn't actually hurt us [I]most[/I] of the time.
I mean, every single one of us is walking around with cancer cells in us right now. It's just that their growth is kept in check by the body. It's only when that fails and the shit bursts out of containment like Akira that it becomes [U]Cancer[/U].
[QUOTE=Lambeth;51697004]Men get away with a lot.[/QUOTE]
What an utterly obtusely moronic statement, yeah down with Michael Douglas and his patriarchy, dying of throat cancer because he had no idea when or how to get tested because there was no data at the time.
[QUOTE=Lambeth;51697004]Men get away with a lot.[/QUOTE]
please dont start this
[QUOTE=27X;51697608]What an utterly obtusely moronic statement, yeah down with Michael Douglas and his patriarchy, dying of throat cancer because he had no idea when or how to get tested because there was no data at the time.[/QUOTE]
god damn it.
lets stay focused
well ive only bangus'd 2 girls, but one of them was a bit of a whorse.
is my dic gona die?
[QUOTE=Kel|oggs;51697811]well ive only bangus'd 2 girls, but one of them was a bit of a whorse.
is my dic gona die?[/QUOTE]
It already has. Everytime you touch it from now on, a bit of it will fall off.
Wow, That's a big amount of people infected and unable to have sex. I wonder how that will affect the populations growth?
Around 41,745 Thousand people have this disease, wow.
[editline]20th January 2017[/editline]
If my calculation is correct of course.
I've been getting HPV shots - it's 3 shots over something like 6 years. No reason not to get them, unless you can't afford it.
There are 120 different types of HPV. It's estimated that 79 million Americans are infected with HPV right now. It's almost certain that several people you know have asymptomatic HPV and have no fucking clue. The real stupid part is the kinds of HPV that causes symptoms, like genital warts, aren't the same kind that usually cause cancer.
Almost everybody will have some sort of sexually-transmitted HPV infection at some point in their life. The majority will never even know.
[QUOTE=27X;51697608]What an utterly obtusely moronic statement, yeah down with Michael Douglas and his patriarchy, dying of throat cancer because he had no idea when or how to get tested because there was no data at the time.[/QUOTE]
I had to check if Michael Douglas is still alive because of you.
So basically what this thread is telling me is that there's a possibility that I have a cancerous disease in my dick and getting the vaccine (if I haven't gotten it already) gets rid of it? Or at the very least keeps it from becoming dangerous?
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;51697001]I've always thought that. It's extremely odd to me that nearly half of Americans are diseased, but nobody mentions it. Everyone just ignores it or acts like it's normal. Really weird, kinda creepy, like something from a movie.[/QUOTE]
Well...if [I]everyone[/I] has it..isnt it weird [I]not[/I] to have it?
r-right guys..? w-weirdos without warts h-ha ha ha.
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