Merck and GSK still can't even whisper an opinion about their vaccines in boys as it relates to H&N cancers, the FDA will come down on them like a load of bricks. This is exactly why for almost a decade OCF has tried to get this dialog to take place in the public media. When the conversation gets loud enough questions get asked of doctors, doctors have to offer opinions. In this instance the science was clearly on our side and the dialog is gaining momentum. But this is different than the FDA granting authority for the manufactures to talk about oral cancer and their vaccine.

We still have to have researchers and doctors and of course advocates like all of us make the argument that the manufacturers cannot. There has to be enough knowledge out there of the opportunity, for parents to want to spend the money to use the vaccine for what is essentially, as far as the FDA is concerned, an "off label" use.