...or pages on the OCF site!

An article in the Los Angeles Times today reports on a study in the journal Cancer by a researcher at Fox Chase Cancer Center on the increase in the rate of rectal cancer (mostly SCC) in people under 40. Here's the last paragraph:
[quote]The researchers could find no evidence that the increase was linked to anal sex, Meyer added. Anal cancers linked to such sex are typically caused by the human papillomavirus, which is common in the gay community. But HPV generally causes adenocarcinomas, he said, and the rectal tumors are squamous cell carcinomas and unlikely to be related.[/quote]
Just thought you all might be interested. (And don't attack the LA Times reporter in your responses, please! He's just the messenger.)


Leslie

April 2006: Husband dx by dentist with leukoplakia on tongue. Oral surgeon's biopsy 4/28/06: Moderate dysplasia; pathology report warned of possible "skip effect." ENT's excisional biopsy (got it all) 5/31/06: SCC in situ/small bit superficially invasive. Early detection saves lives.