Theakston announced this week that he will be taking a break from his role on Heart Radio, reports Mail Online Tuesday.
“Around 70 per cent of throat cancer cases are caused by HPV,” said Dr Hisham Mehanna from the University of Birmingham, adding that multiple oral sex partners can increase the risk up to ninefold.
Doctors have long linked smoking and alcohol consumption to head and neck cancers, but new research points to human papillomavirus (HPV) as a significant contributor.
He said people with multiple oral sex partners have an up to nine-fold increased risk of throat cancer, also known as oropharyngeal cancer.
He wrote in The Conversation that there has been a “rapidly increasing throat cancer in the west’ to the extent some have called it ‘an epidemic’.”
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