[jariel]

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Last night, Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of banking giant JPMorgan , told employees that he is being treated for throat cancer. In a memo, he said that he would begin eight weeks of chemotherapy and radiation treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

He wrote:

The good news is that the prognosis from my doctors is excellent, the cancer was caught quickly, and my condition is curable. Following thorough tests that included a CAT scan, PET scan and a biopsy, the cancer is confined to the original site and the adjacent lymph nodes on the right side of my neck. Importantly, there is no evidence of cancer elsewhere in my body.

It’s impossible to speculate on Dimon’s cancer beyond what he put in his memo. I contacted JPMorgan and the company could not confirm any other details about his conditions. But it’s very possible that Dimon has been swept up, along with thousands of other men, by an increasingly common disease: throat cancer caused by infection with the human papilloma virus, or HPV.

“It wouldn’t be unusual,” says Eric Genden, chief of head and neck oncology at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. “This is an epidemic.”

In 2008, the last year for which data are available, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention estimate that 2,370 women and 9,356 men developed HPV-caused head and neck cancer, about a third of the cases of head and neck cancer that year.

But Genden says that 70% to 90% of head and neck cancer cases worldwide are now caused by HPV; the American Cancer Society estimates that this year, there will be 42,440 cases of head and neck cancer in the U.S.

Traditionally, head and neck cancer patients were older men who smoke and drank heavily. The alcohol and tobacco damaged the cells in the throat, eventually leading to cancer.

HPV-caused cancer is different. The men (and it’s still mostly men) who get it are younger. In a series of cases at Mount Sinai, they were between 35 and 65.

Five years ago, I profiled Maura Gillison, the Ohio State University researcher who helped establish that this was a big problem. She told me how when enrolling a study several years ago, she’d recruited, in sequence, a malpractice lawyer, doctor, a scientist and a rear admiral. The first patient I spoke to about his HPV throat cancer was a consultant and economist who later died from his disease. Two years ago, I wrote about a 50-year-old biotech CEO who also had HPV throat cancer. Last year, the actor Michael Douglas said that his throat cancer was caused by HPV.

The point is that these are men much like Dimon: CEOs and consultants, men at the peak of their lives and professional power. And their numbers are increasing.

The chart above shows the total number of throat cancer cases, and also the amount caused by HPV and the amount that weren’t, among patients in Hawaii, Iowa, and Los Angeles. As you can see, in 2004 the HPV cancers began to outnumber the type caused by smoking and drinking.

How do you get HPV cancer? HPV is sexually transmitted. It’s mainly known as a cause of cervical cancer, which is what happens when it infects women. But men can get it by performing cunnilingus. It’s also possible, though less likely, that it can be transmitted by kissing. Eighty percent of sexually active people between the ages of 14 and 44 have had oral sex with an opposite sex partner. Researchers estimate that HPV throat cancer in men will be more common than cervical cancer in women in the U.S.

Most strains of HPV do not cause cancer, either in the throat or the cervix. And most HPV infections are cleared by the body. But in a minority of cases, perhaps 10%, they persist. If the strain is of the right variety – for instance, the HPV 16 strain of the virus – this infection can eventually lead to cancer. When it comes to throat cancer, this process takes decades.

The good news is that throat cancer caused by HPV is far less deadly than the old type that resulted from chronic tobacco use and drinking. Some researchers have cited data that it is 80% curable. In a series of 500 patients who were early in their disease conducting at Sinai, more than 90% were still cancer free five years after surgery. And in that study Sinai was deliberately using less invasive surgery and skipping chemotherapy and radiation in the interest of sparing men side effects.

One hope is that the vaccines developed to prevent HPV infection in women – Gardasil, from Merck , and Cervarix, from GlaxoSmithKline – could prevent HPV infection in the throat and, therefore, cancer later on. But there’s no way to prove this. Drug companies funded studies showing the vaccines prevented the formation of precancerous lesions in the cervix, but there’s no way to do something similar in the throat.


“I think the downside of having the HPV vaccine in young boys is so low and the potential upside is so high that I advocate it,” says Genden. “Do we have evidence that it prevents oropharangeal cancer in boys? No.”

As I said before, there’s no way to know right now whether Dimon’s illness is caused by HPV – although given what that would mean for his prognosis, I hope it is. But what we do know is that this virus is likely to give cancer to a lot of men who look a lot like him in the years to come.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherpe...r=yahootix

[TigerMandingo]

First off, the author, Matthew Herper, looks and sounds like a massive faggot.

Second, I love eating pussy and if it brings me throat cancer sometime in the future, then so be it.

Im ready.

[Christian McQueen]

Pussy is for smashing, not snacking.

[player]

(07-02-2014 05:48 PM)Cunnilinguist Wrote:  

I love eating pussy

You chose a great username!

[samsamsam]

I knew there was a reason why I never ate a girl out. Never appealed to me.

[Bacchus]

(07-02-2014 06:08 PM)samsamsam Wrote:  

I knew there was a reason why I never ate a girl out. Never appealed to me.

I too am proud to be a member of the no-chow club.

[weambulance]

Meh. I've dived in many a muff, and I will muff dive again.

[bojangles]

Yep, not a pussy muncher here either, dislike it.

[Cr33pin]

So is there a way to safely snack on snatch? Is there a morning after pill for muff diving? Perhaps some aluminum foil over the roast beef before introducing the tornado tongue? Does doing heavy squats and dead lifts solve this problem?

[samsamsam]

(07-02-2014 07:34 PM)Cr33pin Wrote:  

So is there a way to safely snack on snatch? Is there a morning after pill for muff diving? Perhaps some aluminum foil over the roast beef before introducing the tornado tongue? Does doing heavy squats and dead lifts solve this problem?

Haha dental damn, or saran wrap.

[AnonymousBosch]

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It’s impossible to speculate on Dimon’s cancer beyond what he put in his memo.

He says, before speculating on his cancer for a further 15 paragraphs.

[Mr. Butterworth]

good news this is not.

must say I enjoy tasting the sweet poo nanny. smh....

oh well, we already have a zillion ways to die already. why not put another on the board

[TheFinalEpic]

Gentlemen, I give you the solution to the epidemic:

[Parlay44]

I've been waiting to use this GIF

[Days of Broken Arrows]

I'm not buying this.

Journalism and science are an uneasy mix. Most reporters don't have the background, and if they do, they view it through about ten prisms of bias.

I'm old enough to remember the false Alar apple scare, the fake saccharine scare, and the hysterical misreporting on AIDS -- where they claimed it would explode into the hetero community (I'm still waiting for that).

This reads like a giant piece of clickbait conjecture to me. And for all the reporter knows, Jamie Dimon smoked two packs a day in his twenties. It's also conspicuously left out of the story that you up your risk for cancer even if you smoked briefly, so Dimon could have done that in college, for example, and be paying the price now.

I really hope I don't have to go back to journalism anytime soon. It's taken a long journey downhill.

[SheriffBart]

Even if it is conclusive science, I, frankly, don't give a shit. I will eat pussy with same gusto I always have. I eat asshole too. Love it. Part of my definition of manhood and alpha manhood is making your bitch cum hard and often.

It is, however, something she has to earn by being hot and clean and by doing her job of pleasing me.

[BIGINJAPAN]

This was brought up in another thread and I will give the same response as there:

Men have been eating pussy for millennia without fear of HPV

I cant prove this yet, but I am certain it is cellphones. It has been 10 years now since most people have gotten a cellphone. Now manufacturers even put labels on all phones saying that you should operate it 1" from your face. They can see the writing on the wall and are hoping that little warning will stop class action lawsuits.

I expect throat, brain and skin cancer will be exploding in the western world very shortly

[Simeon_Strangelight]

That HPV connection to throat cancer is highly doubted by many known doctors around the world.

Smoking, alcohol, drugs, legal drugs, lack of vitamins and minerals are 10000x more likely to give you throat cancer than licking some pussy.
http://www.doctoryourself.com/herpes.html
http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v3n2.html
http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v2n20.html

I personally do it usually with a very hot girl, since some truly taste like strawberries when they are young. Most are not pussy-licking-worthy.

[michaelm]

(07-02-2014 05:48 PM)Cunnilinguist Wrote:  

First off, the author, Matthew Herper, looks and sounds like a massive faggot.

Second, I love eating pussy and if it brings me throat cancer sometime in the future, then so be it.

Im ready.

That's probably one of the dumber things I've read on this board.
You just got to eat pussy and die as a result of it? Well, that's fucking ridiculous!

[michaelm]

(07-02-2014 10:43 PM)SheriffBart Wrote:  

Even if it is conclusive science, I, frankly, don't give a shit. I will eat pussy with same gusto I always have. I eat asshole too. Love it. Part of my definition of manhood and alpha manhood is making your bitch cum hard and often.

It is, however, something she has to earn by being hot and clean and by doing her job of pleasing me.

But, the bitch kills you. How is that alpha?

[scorpion]

(07-02-2014 10:43 PM)SheriffBart Wrote:  

Part of my definition of manhood and alpha manhood is making your bitch cum hard and often.

You should probably throw out your dictionary.

[Slacker101]

I know someone who got throat cancer from HPV actually. Led to fun accusations while hysterically crying from his daughter about how I could have potentially given it to her and she could die as a result years later blah blah.

[poutsara]

The article is lousy and is meant to garner interest without much substance. But the underlying subject is real and the article does not oversell it.

The fact that certain strains of HPV can cause oropharyngeal cancer ("throat" cancer here) is about as solid as you can get in medicine. The fact that this has taken some time to be known to the non-medical community is due to the obvious subtext as an STD, and the inherent politically correct attitude of medicine.

This has been discussed here before.

HPV and head and neck cancer in men

"Stick it. Don't lick it."

[big poppa]

You got to eat the pussy. Can't live without the shit

[monster]

It wasn't pussy Jamie Dimon was munching on that gave him throat cancer...

It was the poor & middle class he was eating

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