Researchers say whites have more HPV head, throat cancers

Eshlemon · Aug 4, 2009

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Scientists say they have made a discovery that may help explain the racial gap in cancer survival, providing clues to why white patients often outlive black patients even when they have what appear to be the same cancers.

The insights come from research at the University of Maryland into throat cancer and squamous-cell cancers of the head and neck, which have been increasing sharply in recent years, apparently because of the human papillomavirus -- the same sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.

The virus can also be spread through oral sex, causing cancer of the throat and tonsils, or oropharyngeal cancer
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"There was no difference in the survival between black and white patients in the TAX 324 trials if you subtracted out the HPV-positive patients," he said.

Dr. Otis Brawley, the medical director of the American Cancer Society, said that changing sexual practices were increasing rates of head and neck cancers, and perhaps others as well.

"There is a huge public-health message here," he said.
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