The reasons that you give for thinking you have HPV orally is what throws the doctors off. They all know that while that is a transfer mechanism for oral HPV, the mathematical odds of getting a PERSISTENT HIGH RISK HPV ORALLY THAT DEVELOPS INTO A CANCER is really very low. But because of all the news stories, people are coming into their office like cray with stories about their spouses and the people they slept with in the past.

Having said all that, if you are going to have a tonsillectomy, I would be sure that the tonsillar tissue that tis removed goes to a pathology laboratory for complete analysis. If you have a cancer starting from HPV, the pathologist will know. It might save you from this developing further in other lymph tissues in your mouth as you will have caught it early, and it might teach the ENT's not to take this stuff so flippantly, as a small percentage of the people they see DO ACTUALLY HAVE A CANCER DEVELOPING.

Last edited by Brian Hill; 11-10-2013 09:46 AM.
Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.