David actually understands all this much better than he lets on. I am quite comfortable with him representing the foundation at this meeting, and am sure that he will do a great job. He knows very well the importance of this to future generations. The children vaccinated now will not be part of any interaction with HPV+ oral cancers in the future, and this fast growing segment of our patient population will quickly diminish in just 2 generations of vaccinations, vs, growing like wildfire which is what it is doing today.

Only one paper has been published opposing vaccinating young boys, and that is the one that we talked about in another thread from Harvard. It will be very easy to disassemble that poorly thought out paper. Their numbers are based on something that David understands completely, since the authors and he are number crunchers.

They based the numbers on two core false premises. That the average cost for treatment is $43,000 dollars. This is, as anyone who has been through this knows, completely inaccurate, and based on a paper that looked at ANTERIOR OF THE MOUTH TONGUE CANCERS, which are often treated with a surgical only solution. Today, those numbers in an HPV world are worthless. His associate at Moffit will easily make the point that 50%+ of newly diagnosed patients are HPV+, and as such - later stage POSTERIOR OF THE MOUTH finds - and according to NCCN guidelines, treated with radiation, chemo, and sometimes surgery..... average cost about $200,000 plus. Their estimates of the incidence of HPV positive lesions is off by at least 30% or more. Now if you redo the math, vaccination programs for boys makes complete fiscal sense.

Of course they never even considered the cascade of financial problems that cost money (from somewhere, private pay, insurance, state, and federal) they didn't count, that happens to lost patients who were the bread winners of families that now end up on welfare programs, or even the consequences of survivors who can no longer work in their previous vocations because they cannot talk, eat/swallow properly, etc. and the long term costs of their disease and treatment based disabilities.

David will be a great representative for the foundation and the cause.