Time Magazine reports that though HPV, or Human Papilloma Virus is usually more easily detectable in women than men, it seems the recent awareness of the HPV vaccine Gardasil has given rise to yet more research and related studies. There is still so much the medical world doesn't know about virus and it's ability to mutate and affect body organs.

"The study, which appears in this week's New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), shows that men and women who reported having six or more oral-sex partners during their lifetime had a nearly ninefold increased risk of developing cancer of the tonsils or at the base of the tongue. Of the 300 study participants, those infected with HPV were also 32 times more likely to develop this type of oral cancer than those who did not have the virus. These findings dwarf the increased risk of developing this so-called oropharyngeal cancer associated with the two major risk factors: smoking (3 times greater) or drinking (2.5 times greater). HPV infection drives cancerous growth, as it is widely understood to do in the cervix. But unlike cervical cancer, this type of oral cancer is more prevalent in men."