In the next 24 hours I need to get an email from anyone that is/was a oral cancer patient with no history of tobacco use. Please indicate if you were tested for
HPV at the time of biopsy or tumor surgery, or if your "assumption" is that you had an
HPV related cancer because you had none of the historic risk factors. If you came to your disease via tobacco, the show can't use you. (I have another opportunity still in progress/talks with a different show for that story) I need phone number contacts, and one paragraph about your experience, and current status (In treatment, in remission, newly diagnosed, etc.) I am going to forward your emails to the producer at 20/20 for a show that will be done in the next 30 days. He will call everyone and decide who he would like to have appear on the show. It will explore in the story, viruses, transmission mechanisms like oral sex, and will include Dr. Gillison as one of the personalities. Your 15 minutes of fame, and the opportunity to help the oral cancer cause await you!!!