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"A sexually transmitted virus is responsible for the recent rise in oral cancer, ABC News reports"
- HPV, or human papillomavirus, best known for causing cervical cancer, can also cause cancer in the upper throat.
- nearly 10,000 new cases of oropharyngeal cancer each year.
-overall incidence of the disease has risen by 28 percent since 1988 while other types of head-and-neck cancer have been declining.
if the 'trend' continues, oralcancer will become the nation's main HPV-related cancer within the decade