Connie;
I ask myself the same questions all the time. My wife had mononucleosis and about 4 years later she was diagnosed with lymphoma. About the same time I was diagnosed with SCC of head/neck with unknown primary. We are both HPV negative but are both positive for Epstein Barr virus (EBV) which is also causative in both lymphomas and oral cancers. I guess that we'll never know. You are wise to take precautions. I don't know if there will ever be a way to determine if your and your husband's cancers are related. Oral cancers can be caused by so many things and some are simply a result of bad luck with no identifiable causative factor. I'm glad that you are clean and moving forward.

Last edited by Richard T.; 03-22-2012 07:26 PM.
2006 SCC T0 N1 M0; 2006 EBRT x 33, chemo x 3; 2010 Extraction 2 molars; 2010 HBOx30; 2011 Dx osteosarcoma of mandible; 12/20/11 mandibulectomy with temp. titanium plate; 1/31/2012 chemo x 4; 9/19/2012 Reconstruction of mandible with graft from hip and bone morphogenic protein