I did DATY in a yoshiwara soapland. now i'm reading up and i can apparently get oral HPV and thus a lottery ticket for a small chance for the prize of oropharyngeal /throat cancer.
can you guys just do your thing and make fun of me now and tell me it'll be ok. i used to make fun of all these posts but now i'm just anxious. no way to test for it too.
Two friends have been diagnosed with throat cancer in the last decade, both had treatment and have been cancer free for years. As long as you're regular with your checkups so that it's spotted early, it's one of the most easily treated with a post treatment cancer-free survival rate of around 90% for all cases.
Most of the fatal cases are not treated in a timely fashion. My old landlord in the home country refused to go to the doctor until he had a lump the size of a golf ball, unsurprisingly he did not have a good outcome.
For what it's worth:
Estimates are that about 85% of the adult population in the United States has or will have an HPV infection in their lifetime.
If we conservatively go with 50% (since we're only counting oral cases), we're talking about roughly a hundred million men.
There are roughly 15,000 new cases of HPV linked oropharyngeal cancers a year, and 2/3 are men - so about 10,000 a year.
So, if we assume average age of exposure at 25, and average life expectancy of 75, 500,000 cases.
This works out to a 0.5% chance of HOPV developing into cancer, which you have a 90% chance of surviving.
So, if you contracted oral HPV you have a 0.05% chance of actually dying from it at some point in your life. 1 in 2,000.
And you can improve those odds by getting regular annual medical checks.