26-12-2010, 09:39 PM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:Using Smokeless Tobacco is gambling with your health!
http://www.quittobacco.com/facts/effects.htm
Guess what! HPV causes oral cancer, too!
http://www.smokershistory.com/hpvoral.htm
Incidence trends for human papillomavirus-related and -unrelated oral squamous cell carcinomas in the United States. AK Chaturvedi, EA Engels, WF Anderson, ML Gillison. J Clin Oncol 2008 Feb 1;26(4):612-619. 17,625 potentially HPV-related and 28,144 HPV-unrelated diagnoses from nine Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program registries (1973 to 2004). "HPV-related OSCCs were diagnosed at younger ages than HPV-unrelated OSCCs (mean ages at diagnosis, 61.0 and 63.8 years, respectively; P < .001). Incidence increased significantly for HPV-related OSCC from 1973 to 2004 (annual percentage change [APC] = 0.80; P < .001), particularly among white men and at younger ages. By contrast, incidence for HPV-unrelated OSCC was stable through 1982 (APC = 0.82; P = .186) and declined significantly during 1983 to 2004 (APC = -1.85; P < .001)." [caveat - they do not explain in the abstract how they determined whether tumors were HPV-related or not]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18235120