Thanks for posting. Yes, a better read from a respected newspaper.

[quote=littlebird]Decent article in today's New York Times. Comments are moderated, fyi, so perhaps better than in some other papers.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/10/oral-cancer-sneaks-up/ [/quote]

Thanks for the link. Definitely a better article!

From the article-

[quote]However, such �fairly modest changes� in sexual habits do not explain why the cancer risk has doubled or tripled over the years, said Gypsyamber D�Souza, a viral cancer specialist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. It has risen the most in white men 45 and up. The older age is explained by the fact that, like cervical cancer, it can take decades to develop.[/quote]

I wish they would do better research on the person's life style before cancer hit them. We had a post on another board to find similarities in everyone diagnosed; every one posted about an immune hit; usually getting sick; then some type of accident. With my hub; he was working really hard each time to catch up after losing work from being out. He was more stressed & slept less.

My son's aunt was just diagnosed with lung cancer; her story is similar; so was my dad's who passed from leukemia.

You're welcome. It's interesting observing the reactions since Michael Douglas went public(ish). I'm glad that I didn't see the other articles and related comments.

This is an article in an Australian Business magazine but thought it might be of interest ?

http://www.brw.com.au/p/entrepreneurs/michael_douglas_might_have_fared_faUtgY4MaBnBLVFPYvQEwM

Very good article, thanks Gabe.

It may be a function of Google but it seems the vitriole around Michael Douglas' admission of the cause of his cancer has died down a bit and a sense of reason has returned.

It really doesn't matter if the topic is the latest real or made up political scandal or Douglas's comment. The Internet trolls for the most part only show the stupidity of the bulk of American's commenting online- not only how little they know, but how often their prejudice, bigotry, and willingness to say the stupidest things dominates. This is what living behind a blind screen name affords you, the ability to say whatever you want without thought of other's feelings or your impact on them, or to promote lies and propaganda, to others. They eventually crawl back into they cowardly holes when they can't bait anyone into a fight any longer. Thank God that the Douglas thing has finally reached that point and a serious discussion can take place. But there is little question that while he and his wife paid the price for what he should have had stated in a more complete and articulate way, he has raised awareness that was much needed. Now we need to fill the opening with good solid information.

I just (as this was all breaking) edited and added to the OCF HPV pages. In one hour after we were mentioned in the Huffington Post story, we had 14,000 hits on that one page of our web site. That's not a typo, 14k in one hour, and it went on for days like that.

Well said, Brian. It's good to see that the expertise of OCF is acknowledged by the public.

Everyone now needs to watch MD and his familys "6" as no matter how stated by MD he put OC out in the public domain and it is up to us to now fill the fox holes and advance the truth in our WAR!! Semper-Fi Bob

Was front page Vancouver sun today