This board is getting very involved, perhaps disproportionately so, in the questions about
HPV. The data is changing daily. One site which is very credible is this one.
http://www.ashastd.org/HPV/hpv_learn.cfm But note that even with a good organization like this, the data is wrong on their site. there are more than 120 versions of
HPV identified not 70, and this is a reputable group. The issue is the data is changing faster than even their web site. Can you imagine what this means for people that are looking at things that can't be quickly updated, that are in print?
ACS (to their credit) have spent lots of money developing position papers on things like the vaccine
http://caonline.amcancersoc.org/cgi/content/full/57/1/7 which they have gotten published in highly credible places like the Journal Cancer.
But the take away that I wish for everyone to get here, is that viruses which are known to cause 7 major cancers, are a reality. We have little protection from them until vaccination became possible for some. But we have no viracide. If we could kill viruses, we would eliminate the common cold which is caused by a rhino virus. The amount of research on viruses in the US is mind boggling, and the data changes every day. Oral cancer is part of all that. I have rewritten parts of the OCF web site
HPV page 6 times in the last three months. Next month we will put up PDF's on three important new journal articles as it relates to OC. But it is literally changing that fast. For a disease that had almost no changes going on for 50 years, things are really moving quickly now in he world of OC. That means that what we thought we knew is out dated, and many sources that we trust are behind the curve. Because we (OCF) focus on ONE THING ONLY, OC, we can (even with only a small group of volunteers and researchers that we work with) keep as current as possible. The are no days which go by when some part of the web site is not updated or added to. We are spending 15k in the next 60 days to build additional new parts of the web site that do not exist now.
