I'm with you KristenS on this.....husband was telling everyone his was HPV16 and I don't think he actually knows for sure but it made him look better than admitting he had smoked and chewed tobacco for over half of his life. I don't want to say it's HPV16, first of all because I don't know but also it makes people question your lifestyle!

Spouse of 58 yr old with BOT cancer
Stage 4a HPV16 positive
3 chemo treatments cisplantin
35 radiation treatments 7000 cGy
former smoker/chewed tobacco for 38 yrs.
1/2020 diagnosed with cancer near TMJ
4/2020 chemo 5 days every 2 weeks
6/2020 proton therapy
9/21/2020 cancer free