The entire issue of HPV is of no matter to someone like me, I already have several active metastases. I can be a little simple minded, but I find the discussion a little depressing. It has become a stealth statistics discussion, forecasting a rosy outcome for those of us that have HPV as a precipitator of oral cancer. I understand that HPV+ members find some comfort in these studies, but the constant discussion of this research, which is still fairly new, offers little to the already diagnosed and treated patient. As a matter of fact, it appears that the only true benefit of the discussion would be to recruit participants in the study. Even then, you would need to be in close proximity to the study location. Again, just the lay opinion of a 3 year member.

Glenn