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What should be done about the increasing rates of oral cancer from sexually transmitted diseases in young people?
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Education/awareness: Transmission of hpv from genital-oral sexual practices can lead to oral cancers.
Answered 6/22/2012
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Education&vaccine: Education and awareness have to be improved-especially for teenagers and parents of teenagers also, hpv vaccinations are available to prevent hpv infection and hopefully to prevent and decrease incidence of hpv associated cancers.
Answered 11/27/2017
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