Truly sad news.

[theweaselking]

Oral sex causes cancer.

(The actual article goes into how they think it's HPV causing this, and so, since there's a vaccine, this problem should be totally curable.)

Comments

[thette.livejournal.com]

Oh, the vaccine probably is effective until you're infected, but the clinical studies are not yet done on all age groups (or on men).

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Ah. I'd thought the recommendation that the vaccine not be given to women over the age of 26 was based on effectiveness or possible side-effects, rather than on a lack of testing.

[thette.livejournal.com]

Also, a significant percentage of women will have HPV already at that age, and I seem to remember some worries about what the vaccine will do to the ones who are already infected.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

*self-indulgent grumbling about how those of us who don't have it would really like the damn vaccine anyway, please?* Point.