Gay men have higher cancer risk?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13295300?

Homosexual men are more likely to have had cancer than heterosexual men, a US study has suggested.

The study of more than 120,000 people in California has led to calls for more specialist support.

Lesbians and bisexual women also had poorer health after cancer than heterosexuals, according to research published in the journal Cancer.

Cancer Research UK said more research was needed as the reasons for any difference were unclear.

In the 2001, 2003 and 2005 California Health Interview surveys, a total of 3,690 men and 7,252 women said they had been diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives.

Out of the 122,345 people interviewed, 1,493 men and 918 women described themselves as gay, while 1,116 women said they were bisexual.

Gay men were twice as likely to have been diagnosed with cancer as straight men and, on average, it happened a decade earlier.

There was no such link in women.

Test could've been funded by the Pope, but anyways.

I would assume prostate cancer would be the prominent?

Yeah lol...Seems to be the only explanation.

But as for why, my teacher told me that the same virus, "Human Pathaloma Virus" or whatever, the one that causes "survical" cancer in women, is carried by men and women, but since women are the ones with "survixes" they're the only ones infected.

But then she said studies showed that the HPV virus caused "anal" and some other cancer to increase.

And in gay men, their dirty *blanks* with the HPV virus are going into each other's *blanks again*, so obviously they're going to get a higher risk of anal cancer.

Hehehehehe. I feel smart now. GJ to me for tuning into the important part of Bio Lecture that day hehehehhe.

or in other "duhs"; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17018152

Hehehehehe. I feel smart now. GJ to me for tuning into the important part of Bio Lecture that day hehehehhe.

You'd look smart too if you knew that they're actually spelled "cervical" and "cervix".

The more you know.

Though, it sometimes bugs me off, that these tests use logic like this:

A new research shows that people who eat ice cream have a higher chance to drown. Study suggests that out of the 50 people who had drowned, 70% had eaten ice cream during the last week.

Obviously it would be because the people who swim tend to eat ice cream too.

Though, it sometimes bugs me off, that these tests use logic like this:



Obviously it would be because the people who swim tend to eat ice cream too.

LOL.

Wow! I better watch myself, I ate ben and jerries, I might drown in a goddam puddle with all those goddam calories.

You'd look smart too if you knew that they're actually spelled "cervical" and "cervix".

The more you know.

Ehhh I'm not bogged down by the small details, I go for the bigger picture. I don't know those woman parts wtp anyway.

Though, it sometimes bugs me off, that these tests use logic like this:



Obviously it would be because the people who swim tend to eat ice cream too.

"Research shows that:

1. Fat people love ice cream.
2. Fat people have a higher density, that is to say they have a higher body mass index, than skinny people.
3. This higher density makes them much heavier than the density of water compared to skinny people.
4. Fat people drown more since they're heavier.

Logically, ice cream is the problem."

Don't ask me why the fat people don't float on the water.

I'm getting tired of these correlation studies, they are just thrown around with second intentions and revolve mostly around cancer because it's something we don't really know how it happens. And the worst is that the average stupid person has no idea that correlation doesn't imply causation (and could be completly far from it, as it's case for ice creams and drowning).

I mean, adjusting your sample size, confidence interval and tampering with where and how you choose your study group it's easy to correlate anything with anything.

A lot of gay men tan and smoke. Fortunately, I do neither.

I'm getting tired of these correlation studies, they are just thrown around with second intentions and revolve mostly around cancer because it's something we don't really know how it happens. And the worst is that the average stupid person has no idea that correlation doesn't imply causation (and could be completly far from it, as it's case for ice creams and drowning).

I mean, adjusting your sample size, confidence interval and tampering with where and how you choose your study group it's easy to correlate anything with anything.

Ponies cause cancer.

How? Little girls watch them and develop breast cancer when the get older. This logic is flawless.

Ponies cause cancer.

How? Little girls watch them and develop breast cancer when the get older. This logic is flawless.

Lucky I'm neither little or a girl.

Lucky I'm neither little or a girl.

You still watch ponies and have boobs. You're doomed.

or in other "duhs"; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17018152

This was my first instinctual reasoning for OP results. Thanks, Eos, for going above and beyond in posting a PubMed article.

You'd look smart too if you knew that they're actually spelled "cervical" and "cervix".

The more you know.

And "Human papillomavirus"

You'd look smart too if you knew that they're actually spelled "cervical" and "cervix".

The more you know.

And "Human papillomavirus"

Haters gonna hate@@@

Haters gonna educate@@@

Fixed.

This is ridiculous. If I eat a bowl of cereal I have a risk of getting cancer.
If I shower too long I could get cancer.
If I edge for too long I could get cancer.
=_=

If I edge for too long I could get cancer.

Worth the risk, eh? EH?

Yeah.

EVERYTHING gives you cancer nowadays. Its stupid to worry about it, we are all going to die one day. Might be today, might be tomorrow.

"Research shows that:

1. Fat people love ice cream.
2. Fat people have a higher density, that is to say they have a higher body mass index, than skinny people.
3. This higher density makes them much heavier than the density of water compared to skinny people.
4. Fat people drown more since they're heavier.

Logically, ice cream is the problem."

Don't ask me why the fat people don't float on the water.

Actually, being fat allows you to displace more water, due to having a higher density, and more water displaced means you have a higher buoyancy rate. Fat people actually float better than skinny people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS5zpQqbalw

old tv show that was proving that fat people could float better