Can you get warts in the throat by oral?

if someone has warts can the person doing the oral receive hpv? can it cause throat cancer? do condoms help a lot from getting hpv?

HPV is linked to oral cancer.

It is really difficult to say if it is ok to give oral sex when you presently have genital warts. You received your genital wart infection from someone did you have oral sex with that person?? If so there is a chance that you may have HPV in the oral area.

New information is to see your dentist to be checked for precancer changes of the oral area.

Constant condom use does reduce the risk of transmitting the virus but there is not a 100% guarantee that you will not transmit your infection. Inform sex partners of your HPV infection and let them decide for themselves the risk. Condoms and dental dams will help reduce you and your partner’s risks factors.

HPV linked to oral cancers

Published: 31, 2007 at 3:11 PM
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HONOLULU, 31 (UPI) — A U.S. dentist warns a link between human papilloma virus and oral cancer indicates patients should visit a dentist twice a year to catch irregularities.

The study, published in General Dentistry, finds that oral and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma is linked to high-risk HPV strains — the same strains that cause cervical cancer — and that HPV vaccines may decrease the risk of oral cancers.

“More than 100 strains of HPV have been identified,” said study author James Closmann, of the Tripler Army Medical Center, in Honolulu. “They have been shown to cause other benign and malignant disorders, which now include those in the mouth. Nearly 30,000 new cases of oral and oropharyngeal cancer are reported each year.”

Dentists should perform a head and neck exam to detect early signs of oropharyngeal cancers, advises Closmann.

Laura Murcko, spokeswoman for the Academy of General Dentistry advises HPV patients to:

– Keep the dentist informed about changes in oral health.

– Visit the dentist regularly to detect changes.

– Ask the dentist to take a full medical history to determine risks for certain problems.

Virus Spread by Oral Sex Is Linked to Throat Cancer

Thursday, May 10, 2007; Page A13
The sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer also sharply increases the risk of certain types of throat cancer among people infected through oral sex, according to a study being published today.
The study, involving 100 people with throat cancer and 200 without it, found that those infected with the human papillomavirus were 32 times as likely to develop one form of oral cancer than those free of the virus. Although previous research had indicated HPV caused oral cancer, the new study is the first to definitively establish the link, researchers said.

“It makes it absolutely clear that oral HPV infection is a risk factor,” said Maura L. Gillison, an assistant professor of oncology and epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, who led the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The findings could help explain why rates of oral cancer have been increasing in recent years, particularly among younger people and those who are not smokers or heavy drinkers, which had long been the primary at-risk groups, experts said.
“There’s been a kind of sea change in the last 10 years in who we’re seeing with these cancers,” Gillison said. “It makes sense with some changes we’ve seen in sexual behavior.”
The findings provide new evidence that contradicts widespread misconceptions about oral sex.
“Many adolescents, and adults too, say they engage in oral sex as a less risky type of sex,” said Mark A. Schuster of Rand Corp. and UCLA, noting that herpes, syphilis, gonorrhea, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections can spread through oral sex. “What this article and others show is you absolutely can get serious sexually transmitted diseases through oral sex.”
The findings could also provide new ammunition for those advocating wide use of a new vaccine that protects against HPV. Even though the vaccine has not been tested specifically to see whether it reduces the risk of oral cancer, it is designed to protect against the type of HPV associated with the malignancy.
“This adds more data that HPV is an important cause of cancer and that this is an important vaccine,” said Joseph A. Bocchini Jr., who chairs the American Academy of Pediatrics’ committee on infectious diseases.
The type of oral cancer linked to HPV strikes about 11,000 Americans each year, which is about the same as the number of women in whom cervical cancer is diagnosed.
The finding could also spur calls to vaccinate boys as well as girls because oral cancer affects both.
“This will reinvigorate and shift the debate about who should get vaccinated,” said Robert Haddad of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
Proponents of the vaccine have been advocating mandatory vaccination of girls, sparking an intense nationwide debate. Opponents say that the vaccine may encourage sexual activity and that its safety and long-term effectiveness are not clear because it is so new. They argue that the decision should be made by parents individually.
Two other studies published in the same issue of the journal found that the vaccine’s protection against genital warts and precancerous growths lasts at least three years. Such growths can lead to cervical cancer.
Gillison and her colleagues focused on a type of tumor called oropharyngeal cancer — cancer of the tonsils and surrounding tissue. It usually can be treated with surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, but patients can be left with dry mouth and difficulty speaking and swallowing.
The researchers tested 100 people with the cancer and 200 similar subjects without it for HPV infection either anywhere in the body or specifically in the mouth. Researchers also examined factors that would influence the subjects’ chances of being infected with the virus or developing the cancer, such as their sexual histories and whether they smoked or drank alcohol.
After other factors were considered, those who tested positive for HPV were 32 times as likely to have oropharyngeal cancer.
When researchers looked at sexual history alone, the number of partners emerged as a risk factor for developing the cancer. Those subjects who had had one to five oral-sex partners were 3.8 times as likely as those with fewer oral-sex partners to have it, whereas those who had more than six oral-sex partners were 8.6 times as likely. It made no difference whether the partners were male or female.
It remains unclear whether kissing someone who has HPV poses any risks, but “it is not out of the realm of possibility,” Gillison said.

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