That's awesome you called Dr. Gillison. There is a recent study from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine (my hosp), which may posted here in HNC News, elsewhere, that long term partners of oral HPV cancer patients have no significant risk of oral HPV.

"In the first study of its kind, researchers including Marshall Posner, MD, Medical Director of the Head and Neck Medical Oncology Program at Mount Sinai, sought to determine the prevalence of the human papillomavirus (HPV) in spouses of people with HPV-positive throat cancer, which is derived from the strain of HPV known as HPV16. They evaluated the viral load of 83 couples in which one partner had an HPV16-positive throat cancer, using a novel oral rinse and gargle test. They found that 54 percent of people with HPV16-positive throat cancer had evidence of HPV16, the strain associated with this type of cancer, at diagnosis, and six percent had it after a year, despite treatment. In their long-term partners, prevalence of any HPV was five percent in female partners of men with HPV16-positive throat cancer and 29 percent in male partners of women with HPV-positive throat cancer-findings that are comparable to the general population. "Recent research suggests that husbands of women with cervical cancer are at greater risk for a future HPV16 positive throat cancer, and patients with throat cancer have expressed reasonable concerns about infecting their spouses with the virus," said Dr. Posner. "Ours is the first trial to evaluate the prevalence of HPV in long-term partners of people with throat cancer, and the findings should reassure those in long-term relationships that their risk is very low."