Sexually transmitted oral cancers screened with early blood test

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 12:30 in Health & Medicine

Antibodies to a high-risk type of a virus that causes mouth and throat cancers when transmitted via oral sex can be detected in blood tests many years before onset of the disease, according to a World Health Organization-led team of researchers.

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