Cecilia,

I think he's kinds off base with his HPV understandings. Some U.S. oral cancer doctors are considering an HPV+ result in the Tx plans and some think HPV+ SCC should be staged differently than HPV- SCC and this is because HPV+ SCC has shown a rather large % difference in recurrence and therefore mortality.

When I started my crusade to make everyone aware of HPV and it's connection to OC almost 3 years ago my purpose was to get as many patients tested so that the 2 pools, so to speak, HPV+ SCC and HPV- SCC could be as pure as possible. I reasoned, how else could scientists ever know as much as they could about HPV's affect in the OC environment if the HPV- pool was contaminated with HPV+ samples? Certainly HPV just didn't start to cause OC so when they talked about OC mortality 5 years ago, they had to be mixing HPV+ and HPV- patients together and if they are now concluding that HPV+ SCC responds differently to Tx than HPV- SCC, then one must conclude that until they totally separate the 2 pools, they really won't know what the true facts are.