HPV...There is no way around this question: How can a person contract HPV in a totally monogamous relationship? There is absolutely no question about other partners being involved. None. So, that issue aside, is there any other way a person could become infected?

My husband is a urologist who is scrupulous about cleanliness. Could he by any chance have picked up the virus in his practice in a non-sexual contact and passed it to me?

I haven't been tested yet, and I have no reason to believe that I have this virus, but I go to the gynecologist next week and could ask to be tested if there is a reason for it. AND.....if it will not cause relationship problems afterward. If I have HPV and do not have other causative factors for my OC, is it the current thinking that often HPV can be a cause?

Colleen--T-2N0M0 SCC dx'd 12/28/05...Hemi-maxillectomy, partial palatectomy, neck dissection 1/4/06....clear margins, neg. nodes....no radiation, no chemo....Cancer-free at 4 years!