Okay, now that I've calmed down, what is the takeaway from this CR article? It ignores all the facts about HPV and oral cancer in the newest Annual Report to the Nation on the status of Cancer & HPV co sponsored by,ACS, CDC, NCI, & NAA CCR.
Annual Report on Cancer

But I am willing to bet most reporters will just read the USA today summary and comments; since it is far more sensational than OCF's news coverage: ocf news annual report
USA today annual report
I'm equally guilty and these quotes are from the USA today.
the last paragraph is my reading of the full report. You can never trust anyone else's summary of these reports or you will get burned.
[quote]A new report documents a disturbing rise in the number of cases of cancer related to HPV, a family of sexually transmitted viruses linked to tumors of the cervix, head and neck, and several organs.

The spike in HPV-related cancers defies the generally positive trends in cancer, whose incidence and mortality rates continue to fall slightly each year,
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[quote]The proportion of HPV-related oral tumors has increased, however, growing from 16% of all oral cancers in 1984 to 1989, to 72% of these tumors from 2000 to 2004, the report says.
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What I am surprised at is Consumer Report's focusing on how relatively rare oral cancer is, considering that USA article states that [quote]about 12,200 women a year are diagnosed with cervical cancer, while 7,100 people develop HPV-related oral cancers, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, another sponsor of the report. If trends continue, oral cancers will overtake cervical cancers as the leading cause of HPV-related tumors by 2020.[/quote]

The Annual report focuses on having the HPV vaccine given to all girls and boys to create a "herd immunity" as the only practical deterrent and primary preventive tool. Makes early detection moot.
So Consumer Reports could still save face and issue a "clarification" that among the reasons listed, a major factor was that if every parent had their boys and girls vaccinated against HPV, then this cancer would fade away and even smaller numbers would need any detection test. wishful thinking on my part
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