Μάικλ Ντάγκλας: «Ο στοματικός έρωτας μου προκάλεσε τον καρκίνο»

Πριν από τρία χρόνια το Hollywood είχε συγκλονιστεί από την είδηση ότι ο Michael Douglas πάσχει από καρκίνο του φάρυγγα. Τότε μάλιστα οι γιατροί είχαν επισημάνει την κρισιμότητα της κατάστασής του ηθοποιού, τονίζοντας ότι πρόκειται για μια δύσκολη περίπτωση.

Σήμερα όμως ο Michael Douglas έρχεται να μας σοκάρει για μια ακόμα φορά, αποκαλύπτοντας ότι για τον καρκίνο του δεν ευθύνονται ούτε τα τσιγάρα, ούτε τα ποτά.

Σε μια ειλικρινή συνέντευξή του στην εφημερίδα Guardian ο γνωστός ηθοποιός αφοπλίζει με την απάντησή του στην ερώτηση αν θεωρεί υπεύθυνο για την ασθένειά του το τσιγάρο και το ποτό.

«Όχι δεν τα θεωρώ υπεύθυνα. Χωρίς να θέλω να μπω σε πολλές λεπτομέρειες, ο συγκεκριμένος αυτός καρκίνος προκαλείται από ένα όγκο (HPV) για τον οποίο ευθύνεται η αιδιολειξία. Ναι, πρόκειται για μια σεξουαλικώς μεταδιδόμενη ασθένεια», είπε, αφήνοντας άφωνο τον δημοσιογράφο που του πήρε τη συνέντευξη.​


Πηγή: star.gr

American actor Michael Douglas says his throat cancer was caused by a virus he contracted by performing oral sex — a claim that a doctor called dubious.

In an interview with the British daily the Guardian that was published Monday, Douglas blamed cunnilingus for the disease he was diagnosed with 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 andFatal Attraction. He is currently appearing in an acclaimed biopic about the late flambuoyant pianist Liberace.

Douglas told the newspaper his cancer had been caused by 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 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 behaviours, 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 heterosexual men in their 40s and 50s.