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[imoonie]

Anyone not from California is going to laugh at me, because I had to get up at the horrifically early hour of 6:45am in order to get to a dental cleaning appt at 8am.  But even though it was SUCH a trial, lol, it's good for me to get appts out of the way early so that I don't miss much work.  The cleaning went well, and I grabbed a cup of coffee

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[bluenosegirl]

And exactly who sponsored the "study" that said oral sex increases your risk of throat cancer? Oy. Perhaps the same people who will be attending the opening of the "scientific" Creationist museum in Kentucky??? ROFLMAO. Throat cancer? Bwa ha ha ha!!! Only if you smoke a cigar while you're doing it, and hey that takes more talent than I am capable of!

[imoonie]

This is the source of the article. Specifically:

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, who studied 100 men and women newly diagnosed with the rare malignancy and 200 healthy people found that a common strain of HPV -- HPV 16 -- was present in 72 percent of tumours.

Patients whose blood or saliva samples indicated that they had prior HPV infection were 32 times more likely to develop oropharnygeal cancer, which affects the throat, tonsils and back of the tongue.

And those people who had had more than six oral sex partners were 8.6 times more likely to develop the HPV-linked cancer.

It's that darned HPV thing again.

[bluenosegirl]

Isn't it linked to cervical cancer as well? It makes more sense to me now. 'Scuse me, gotta blow on outta here... LOL

[imoonie]

Yep! But I figure, you gotta die of something.. ;)

[dracschick]

glad dentist went well!

PS--I think the data said only men so we woman can still enjoy it:)

[lady_deirdre]

I get up at 6.45 to make it to work on 8.30 :p

Mind you, there's 15 mins of cycling, half an hour by train and another 15 minutes of cycling involved.