When Mike was diagnosed, along with the shock of having cancer, there was the additional shock of having a cancer we never heard of. Base of Tongue? What the heck was that? No one ever heard of that. Most of these Oropharynx cancers we never heard of. It is surprising to see how many people do have this! Equally surprising to find such alarming increases in cases involving younger and non-smoking individuals. The first question the ENT asked Mike was "how much do you smoke and drink?" Well, he does'nt smoke or drink. I went into a fury of anger over that question. That anger motivated me to research and find this site. I made the HPV connection but dropped the subject quickly. It really doesn't matter how you we got here, we're all here and were all dealing with it together.