I don't hear much talk of HPV on this site. There seems to be more and more evidence that this causes cancer. My husband was never a smoker or drinker, only socially. We believe that he may have contracted HPV. We don't have the results of his specimen taken in the biopsy or even if the physicians check for this, although they have been made aware of the concern.

HPV is a virus and will never go away. I wonder how this will play a role in his long-term fight of SCC? Any thoughts?


Husband Dx 4/06, Stg IVa, T1N2aM0, primary lft tonsil, treatments to begin 5/28/06.