The elephant in the room, in my mind, is the question of whether or not the rad/chemo treatment for the oral/throat cancer also destroys the
HPV-16+ virus and makes it possible to be intimate again post-treatment without concerns about passing the virus to a sexual partner. Also, if the sexual partner of the oral/throat cancer patient is an HPV16+ carrier without symptoms, can the patient treated with rad/chemo have a new oral/throat cancer emerge because of re-infection with the HPV16+ through intimate contact with the carrier-sexual partner? Has anyone seen any data or medical studies addressing this issue?
