LONDON (AP) — Actor Michael Douglas says that his throat cancer was caused by a virus he contracted by performing oral sex on women — a claim that a doctor called dubious.

The Guardian newspaper published an interview Monday in which Douglas blamed cunnilingus for the grave malady that was diagnosed in 2010. The 68-year-old Douglas has been free of cancer for more than two years after receiving extensive chemotherapy and has returned to acting.

Douglas has starred in many movies, including "Basic Instinct" and "Fatal Attraction." He is currently appearing in an acclaimed biopic about Liberace. He told the newspaper his cancer had been caused by having contracted the human papillomavirus (HPV), which he said led to cancer.

"It's a sexually transmitted disease," Douglas said of the virus. Dr. Michael Brady, who specializes in sexual health as medical director of the Terrence Higgins Trust, told The Associated Press that oral sex could have contributed to Douglas's cancer but that it was difficult to pinpoint a single cause.

He pointed out that Douglas had been a smoker and a drinker, two factors that he said are the most common causes of oral cancer. "There are often a number of factors, genetic, environmental, viral, that could be playing a role," he said.

Brady said there are hundreds of different types of HPV virus and that in most cases it is not harmful. The risk is so low, he said, that he does not believe people should worry or change their sexual practices.

Doctors estimate up to about one third of mouth and throat cancers are HPV-related and that the types of HPV found in the mouth are likely to have been caused by oral sex. Still, most high-risk HPV types are linked to genital cancers. For some oral cancers, certain sexual behaviors, like having oral sex with four or more people in your lifetime, can raise the risk, according to Britain's Department of Health. Oral cancers caused by HPV are most common in straight men in their 40s and 50s.

Douglas is married to the actress Catherine Zeta-Jones.

sex is no 'casual' matter,,,,,

it has real and FAR REACHING conseequences beyond those few moments of self satisfaction,,,


I do hope he recovers though

and stops doing the oral thing.

And his smoking and excessive Alcohol-Consumption didn't have a damn thing to do with it?
Can you say TheNile?(Denial)

I'm trying to decide if his statement is more humiliating for Zeta-Jones if she DOES or DOES NOT have this disease herself.

Welcome to the 20th century.

Sex is a casual matter these days, and since Bill and Monica to an even larger scale.

People are breeders, a fact! Laws and conscience have done little to change that fact, just created an underbelly/underground that thrives thanks to prudish do-rights who think they need to (or can) control human desires.

Children should always be protected of course, by law and conscience, but what part of "2 consenting adults" don't they get?

Monsatan can clone and mess with the natural genome of things, but 2 adults sharing a moment is not casual and we need laws governing it?

Get a clue! It's called intercourse for a reason!

Intercourse
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Intercourse may refer to:

Sexual intercourse
Interpersonal communication, any kind of human communication and/or interaction

For one, he's not going to recover as when his cancer news broke he was deep into the third stage of cancer,he allready embraced the inevitable, and no doubt thrird stage smoke inilation. (Joke
Yes you can contract strains of VD to the throat through cunnulingus or felasio and can also pass herpies
from mouth to genitals and a vis versa.
he's bin with her since she was 23 and I think she's about 38 if he had it then that would of past on
to her long ago.

Unless he's a f..... around!

Gee all the FUN stuff gives you cancer now huh ?

Is there health insurance for the newly married gays? Who will pay for them?

STDs , One week of Tetracycline would cure it providing both partners
were treated ..the dose of the throat

actually,Antibiotics are useless against Virii!
That's what is being blamed as the Cause of his condition!

not sure what Monsato, or laws have to do with my post,,,,,but thanx for sharing,,,,

Sex is as casual as the person is. There are women who use men for sex and don't care. It's not just men. They are just in it for the sex and it's completely casual. There are others who would not want to have sex until they were married. Most are somewhere in the middle of all that. I have read enough of Ms Harmony posts to tell you she will not be shacking up or jumping in bed with anybody she does not have a real relationship with.

Yes this is true, at a second look I see it reads virus, so antibiotics wouldn't be afective.
Furthermore it should read (infection) as there is no such thing as a sexual throat virus.
Gonorrhea can be transferred, more commonly from performing fellatio...so dont you do that
Yeast infection past on may just give you a throat irritation.
As for visuses I only think there's three sex related one's, human immuneo-deficiency virus (HIV)
Hepatitis: causes liver disease
Genital Herpes: that live in your lower spine until an out break which is now said to be transferable
to mouth Herpes & vis versa which lives in your upper spine.

Those Little Beasties are constantly nipping at us!
No getting away!

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Now there say a young person can live 50 years with HIV, basically its not a death sentance anymore.
all the advanced treatments are avalible to everybody now. Many of the same treatments that were
just avalible to the wealthy, such as Erwin (Magic) Johnson, NBA great that contracted the virus in 1991

yes I remember in the mid 80s in high school, not knowing from day to day if nukes were going to come
overhead from each side, then Rock Hudson had died from this new killer virus, it seemed so hopeless
Some days.
We were thinking the next thing thats giong to happen will be, when you stick it in, instead of blowing
off, you blow up!

Genital human papillomavirus (also called HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI). There are more than 40 types of HPV that can infect the genital areas of males and females. These HPV types can also infect the mouth and throat.

You need to read up on STD's. HPV's are viral. There is no antibiotic that will treat an HPV. There are some hopeful Acyclovirs
that show promise but not a cure all. Consult with your doctor.
They can inform you.

Especially, with Catherine Zeta-Jones, she's a dirty little girl...

Yep!