According to a recent study women who have had lots of sexual partners are less likely to get oral cancer. The cancers are linked to the human papillomavirus or HPV one of the most common sexually transmitted infections the Mirror reported. Researchers told the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting that they also found men were twice as likely to develop the disease. For men the risk of HPV-driven cancers of the head and neck rise along with the number of oral sex partners researchers said. (Read: Few symptoms of oral cancer that you should never ignore)
