My, OUR, job is not done and judging by a conversation I had yesterday, is a long way from getting the HPV message out there to those that need it. I received a call yesterday from a Moffitt OC patient who has been recently diagnosed with SCC and who first went to an ENT who was the one that did a FNA and found his cancer. You know me, I started grilling him on his age, tobacco use, location of the Primary, where the cancer was found, etc, etc. He seemed puzzled and finally said why are you asking me all these questions? After getting his answers I told him that being a male, 60 years old, non smoker, casual drinker, Tonsil Primary and confirmed mets to one node that he fit the profile for HPV and I asked him had he been tested.

Ugh he said that he had never heard about HPV but he did say that Moffitt said they wanted to run more tests.