According the this article Stina Syrj�nen, Ph.D., D.D.S., in Finland is credited with formally linking cervical cancer to oral cancer and published the first evidence of that connection in 1983 (twenty seven year ago).

http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/95/9/638

I thought Maura Gillison, M.D., Ph.D is credited with proving the long suspected HPV link to OC.

Don
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