I had a chill of recognition reading this article on lung cancer. The subject line says it all.
Sympathy stained with Blame Oral cancer evokes the same response of Sympathy Stained With Blame It's bad enough to have everyone immediately blurt out: Oh you smoked with the implications spelled out in the newspaper article. If and when the HPV connection reaches critical mass, I wonder if we will still be judged so harshly - just on a different basis.


65 yr Old Frack
Stage IV BOT T3N2M0 HPV 16+
2007:72GY IMRT(40) 8 ERBITUX No PEG
2008:CANCER BACK Salvage Surgery
25GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin
Apaghia /G button
2012: CANCER BACK -left tonsilar fossa
40GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin

Passed away 4-29-13