Zeb

The above post indicates to me that you are unduly fixated on oral sex and HPV. You are the one and only OCF member who has 100% of his posts on the topic of oral sex & HPV. Plus out of the 14 posts so far, IMO, not one is helpful or supportive to the cancer patients or caregivers here. Instead you treat OCF like your personal debating club on your sexual obsession disguised as a health concern. Worse, your comments are illogical.
But I don't mind dealing with logic impaired people, so let me spell out for you that the table in the study on p 26 and its caveat that they have no clear explanation for racial disparities does NOT invalidate the transmission of HPV via Oral sex as a cause for increased oral cancers. It does raise a question as to whether races may process HPV differently or if there is a genetic or heredity issue in susceptibility. Many cancers affect races differently.

[quote]The cancer experience among ethnic and racial groups varies widely across the world as well as here in the United States. The differences between groups may be related to a variety of factors including biology, heredity, and perhaps most important, behavior. [/quote]
That's the summary of the NIC on its statistics NIC- racial/ethnic patterns in cancer

So bottom line: Oral sex transmits HPV. HPV can cause oral cancer. Not everybody who gets HPV gets oral cancer. We don't know why someone gets oral cancer from HPV and others don't, regardless of their race or sex.
Charm