The Oral Sex Cancer Connection

Teresa Dillon was surprised to learn four years ago that what she deemed as an average sore throat actually was stage 2 cancer on her tonsil. "People think the face of oral cancer is a 70-year-old man who's been chewing tobacco and drinking whiskey all his life," she said. "But the face of oral cancer now is — it's me, a young woman, healthy, nonsmoking, fit." But what really shocked the waitress and then 38-year-old was that the human papillomavirus may have caused her illness, a illness...Full Story