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A member asked:
If hpv causes gyen and mouth cancers, why arent we hearing more about it for boomers who didn't use condomes much?
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Awareness: Cervical cancers are not too common- 12000 a year and almost all women get screened pretty regularly with pap smears and exams. For oral cancers, hpv causes about 15-20000 cases a year- this is now getting more apparent adn detections is becoming part of standard testing only now. Specific treatment fro these cancers are in trials.
Answered 8/2/2012
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