Eddie the Head must be proud.
Iron Maiden Bruce Dickinson frontman says he may have gotten tongue
cancer from performing oral sex on women — and rid himself of the
illness only a few months ago.
Speaking with Jim Norton on Opie Radio Tuesday, the British heavy metal
singer said he believes his cancer came from the sexually transmitted
human papillomavirus (HPV), which led to a golf-ball sized tumor on the
base of his tongue.
Dickinson, 57, didn’t specifically blame his cancer on cunnlingus, but
the HPV virus is more likely to start in someone’s mouth if it's
transmitted by oral sex.
Dickinson mentioned Oscar-winning “Wall Street” actor Michael Douglas,
who alluded to oral sex as a cause for his own case of throat cancer
years ago but directly connected it to his tongue activities.
“Everybody went ‘Ha ha ha ha’ (about Douglas), but in actual fact, the
thing about the HPV virus is people don’t know a great deal about it,”
Dickinson said.
“It comes and goes, it comes and goes. For some reason, and nobody
knows why, in guys over 40 it can persist ... and it’s a cunning little
beast.”
The singer for Iron Maiden — the legendary metal band that used the
monster mascot Eddie the Head on most of its album covers — said he was
given an all-clear in May and the cancer never affected his massive
singing voice, although he’s “still healing up” after nine weeks of
chemotherapy.
HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United
States, and nearly one-third of men Dickinson’s age are at a high risk
of it, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
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