Study links early oral sex to elevated mouth cancer risk via HPV

A study from Johns Hopkins University quietly redraws the map of cancer risk for younger generations, finding that HPV transmitted through oral sex may now rival tobacco and alcohol as a driver of throat and mouth cancers. Among 508 participants, those with ten or more oral sex partners were more than four times as likely to develop oropharyngeal cancer, and those who began oral sex before eighteen faced an eighty percent greater risk regardless of lifetime partner count. The findings do not call for abstinence, but rather for awareness — and for a vaccine already freely available to Australia