First of all, I would like to thank Gail Mac for writing to my husband and I sometime ago in response to a message I placed on the forum. I lost your reply before I could respond. Your message was very kind and encouraging to us both. My husband is a patient of Dr. Gillison's as well and has completed his treatment (35X radiation/cisplatin/tarceva) and will be having his neck dissection tomorrow with Dr. Tufano. His tonsil biopsy came back HPV positive and I would just like to "ditto" all that you said about HPV. I, myself, have been tested and am HPV negative. My GYN is very concerned about HPV and I took her a copy of Dr. Gillison's paper. She told me that she discusses the subject of HPV with her patients. She is hoping that in the next few years that the vaccine will be available to young men as well. I feel this subject is something that needs to be publicized more and I have discussed the subject with our dentist. I feel that dentists should be discussing this with their patients and I hope dentists become more concerned about checking people for oral cancer. Brochures should be out in their offices. I know you all were shocked when you got your diagnosis - having never smoked or drank and lived monagomously - and we shock people when we tell them about Rick's cancer and the HPV connection. Rick will be starting the same clinical trial with the HPV vaccine in the next couple of weeks. Would love to meet you and Barry sometime.