Raju Burnis, Mateti Uday Venkat, Peecee Revathi Raghunath, Patil Prakash, Khanal Pukar, Avvaru Deepthi, Shetty Vijith Vittal, Chaudhary Raushan Kumar
Department of Pharmacy Practice, NGSM Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (NGSMIPS), Nitte (Deemed to be University), Mangalore, Karnataka 575018 India.
Central Research Laboratory, K.S. Hegde Medical Academy (KSHEMA), Nitte (Deemed to be University), Mangalore, Karnataka 575018 India.
Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2024 Dec;76(6):5154-5169. doi: 10.1007/s12070-024-04917-z. Epub 2024 Aug 3.
Inappropriate sexual practice like oral sex has been linked with head and neck cancer (HNC). The recent data revealed that about 20% oropharyngeal caner among Indians are associated with oral sex. Thus, we aimed to comprehensively assess the trend of research in oral sex associated with HNC and to predict the research frontiers and potential hotspots in the near future. The publications related to oral sex and HNC were retrieved from Scopus database via systematic search strategy (till 15th July 2023). VOSviewer version 1.6.19 and Biblioshiny software were used to identify the trends and research hotspots. A total of 2,179 original articles has been identified of which United States had the highest number of articles (837) followed by United Kingdom (155) and India (140). The number of articles in the area of oral sex and HNC has been increased significantly over decades (highest in 2022: 169 articles) which suggests the trend of the research. Most of the studies were from the National Cancer Institute and most of the studies were published in oral oncology journal (76) along with the 3231 citations. HNC, Human papilloma virus (HPV), oropharyngeal cancer and oral cancer are the enriched keywords which suggests that the individual practicing oral sex are prone to HPV infection which results into HNC. HPV infection mediated via oral sex might be the reason behind the surge of HNC which needs to be addressed via spreading awareness, proper counseling and integrating sex education in study curriculum.
诸如口交等不适当的性行为与头颈癌（HNC）有关。最近的数据显示，印度约20%的口咽癌与口交有关。因此，我们旨在全面评估与头颈癌相关的口交研究趋势，并预测近期的研究前沿和潜在热点。通过系统检索策略（截至2023年7月15日）从Scopus数据库中检索与口交和头颈癌相关的出版物。使用VOSviewer 1.6.19版和Biblioshiny软件来识别趋势和研究热点。共识别出2179篇原创文章，其中美国的文章数量最多（837篇），其次是英国（155篇）和印度（140篇）。几十年来，口交与头颈癌领域的文章数量显著增加（2022年最多：169篇文章），这表明了研究趋势。大多数研究来自美国国家癌症研究所，大多数研究发表在《口腔肿瘤学》杂志上（76篇），还有3231次引用。头颈癌、人乳头瘤病毒（HPV）、口咽癌和口腔癌是高频关键词，这表明进行口交的个体容易感染HPV，进而导致头颈癌。通过口交传播的HPV感染可能是头颈癌激增的原因，这需要通过提高认识、适当咨询以及将性教育纳入学习课程来解决。
