Yes, last time I went to my OB/GYN (6 mos. ago) I was told that they would only test for HPV iF I had an atypical or abnormal Pap. Frustrating, because my udnerstanding is I could have it anyway and it could just not be showing any symptoms. I did have an atypical PAP about 7 years ago, they did a colposcopy (a biopsy), which came back negative, and they did test it for HPV I think, but I can't reacll what the results were. Anyway, my most recent PAP was OK.

What's frustrating is that was at an OB?GYN in the town I used to live, when I moved I brought those records with me to the new OB/GYN but then a couple of years went by (one of which was the cancer year) when I didn't have an OB/GYN exam and they told me they threw out my old files!!! And those were the original ones--so now I have no record of that test (the old place did not have computer files).

My tongue cancer isn't in a typical form for an HPV cancer, but I do wonder if it could have been related to HPV.

Nelie