 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Maybe she gave him HPV?!?! My understanding also is that if it is dormant it won't show up in a bloodtest that's why my doctors won't test me for it. I have HCV - it's been dormant since I was 6 years old (when I had my only blood transfusion). It became active almost 30 years later and has been dormant ever since. I also had shingles (Herpes Zoster) from chickenpox that I had as a child. It also lays undetectable in the ganglia unless it goes active.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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