I only have two comments
Firstly, I question the veracity of "dr mirkin" and "dr pinna" as this website just doesn't ring true. To try to put my finger on it, I looked around the website and stopped when I got to Dr Pinna's biography which just sounds ... wrong. A BA in economics??? In Mexico? After which he becomes a purser on a ship?? Then a Masters in Philosophy before his medical degree?? I wonder if these doctors, if in fact they ARE medical doctors are better suited to the "quacksite"

My second comment is around the use of the word promiscuity. If we don't want to stigmatise HPV and oral cancer then we need to watch our language. I remember reading the trial last year that quantified risk against the number of sexual partners we have, (the number 6 springs to mind but don't quote me) and I do not recall thinking that the number was particularly promiscuous.

As a still single 50 year old (although heavily committed to one man), I think I may have hit that number before I was 25. Maybe people DO interpret that as promiscuous but I think some of us were just slow learners:). I wonder how I would have been labelled by my 35th birthday?

We only just DE-stigmatised oral sex during my generation and I know at least half the population would be devastated if we were forced to return to the 50s way of thinking.

Karen


Karen
Love of Life to Alex T4N2M0 SCC Tonsil, BOT, R lymph nodes
Dx March 2010 51yrs. Unresectable. HPV+ve
Tx Chemo x 3+1 cycles(cisplatin,docetaxel,5FU)- complete May 31
Chemoradiation (IMRTx35 + weekly cisplatin)
Finish Aug 27
Return to work 2 years on
3 years out Aug 27 2013 NED smile
Still underweight