HPV-Positive Cancers Spreading among the Middle-Aged: Scientific American: Head and neck cancer patients were once primarily older heavy smokers and drinkers. Now, the majority who are diagnosed with the disease are closer to middle age (many ages 40 to 55) and developed it not from years of tobacco or alcohol use but rather because they engaged in oral sex.
HPV-positive cancer rates will continue to rise for at least the next decade or two. Why? Simple societal shifts: This increase that we are seeing could be arising from changes in sexual behaviors that have occurred over time in the United States. People seem to be having more types of sex with more people—and starting to do so at a younger age.
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