An article in Sunday's New York Times discusses the issues involved in marketing Gardasil for boys, and notes the vaccine could receive FDA approval for boys in 2009. The role of HPV in some head and neck cancers is very briefly noted in the last third of the article.

-- Leslie

Leslie

April 2006: Husband dx by dentist with leukoplakia on tongue. Oral surgeon's biopsy 4/28/06: Moderate dysplasia; pathology report warned of possible "skip effect." ENT's excisional biopsy (got it all) 5/31/06: SCC in situ/small bit superficially invasive. Early detection saves lives.