Cancers that arise in the tonsil or back of the tongue are classified as oropharyngeal cancer, and most of these (approximately 70 percent) are caused by HPV. Head and neck cancers, especially ...

Tonsils consist of lymphoid tissue that can harbor cancer-causing strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV), such as HPV type ...

HPV is one of the most common sexually transmitted ... cancers affecting areas such as the base of the tongue, tonsils, and back of the throat. The virus spreads through intimate skin-to-skin ...

HPV-18) are usually associated with cancers, such as: Cervical cancer Anal cancer Oropharyngeal cancer (throat, base of tongue, and tonsils) Vaginal, vulvar, and penile cancers According to Dr ...

Symptoms often include a painless neck lump and a sore throat. The main risk factors for tonsil cancer are smoking, drinking alcohol and infection with the human papilloma virus (HPV). Most tonsil ...

tonsils, and base of the tongue). Other types of HPV can cause common, or nongenital, skin warts on other areas of the body.

specialists have seen more and more cases of cancer caused by human papillomavirus (HPV), which can colonize and change the lymphoid tissue at the back of the throat, specifically the tonsils and ...

This shift is largely attributed to the increasing prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infections ... which affects the tonsils and the back of the throat, has been rapid over the past ...

It was almost certainly tonsil cancer, she said ... The vast majority of us never know we have HPV; however, each year about 47,000 of us in this country develop cervical, throat and other ...