According to a research at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center human papillomavirus (HPV) causes some throat cancers in both men and women. Researchers say that ‘oral HPV infection is the strongest risk factor for the disease regardless of tobacco and alcohol use and having multiple oral sex partners tops the list of sex practices that boost risk for the HPV-linked cancer’. The New England Journal of Medicine published this study. But the researchers are also quick to point out that oropharyngeal cancer is ‘relatively uncommon and the overwhelming majority of people with an oral HPV infection probably will not get