MSG. You need to find a doctor that is going to determine if you have oral cancer or not. Forget all this dialog about HPV for now. It is not helping you move toward the place you need to be.

As to the other comments. People that have been exposed to HPV can have serology tests that will find an antibody for HPV if you have been exposed. That information today isn't of any value to anyone.

The only way to know if the lesion/tumor is of an HPV origin, is to test sample tissue from the tumor. It matters not if the tissue sample is from a primary site or other related SCC malignant tissues, they will have the HPV in the cells, and a PCR test will be the mechanism for finding it. After the fact (treatment etc.) nothing can determine this with certainty. But since today the treatments are still the same, this will give you some information, but not much that you can do anything with.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.