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A comment on Cancer Progress: Much More Than You Wanted To Know (2018).

Re:Cancer Progress: Much More Than You Wanted To Know (2018) by bsder on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @08:23PM (#18861510)
> The only contrary data point I can find is this study of laryngeal cancer, which finds worsening stage-specific survival rates for high-stage laryngeal cancer since 1977.

I seem to recall someone theorizing that the increased prevalence of oral sex is responsible by putting HPV deeper into the throat and thereby increasing the prevalence of throat cancers.

HPV vaccinations should cause a corresponding down tick shortly if that is true.

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Re:Cancer Progress: Much More Than You Wanted To Know (2018) by faltad on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @09:13AM (#18864780)
> Recent data suggest that individuals that come to the disease from this particular cause have a significant survival advantage,[20] as the disease responds better to radiation treatments than tobacco caused disease.

From Wiki + https://www.mdanderson.org/newsroom/2010/06/hpv-positive-tum...

It does seem indeed that there is more prevalence of laryngeal cancer due to HPV however according to that link above, it should not worsen survival rates but rather make them better, wouldn't it?

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