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Joined: Mar 2018 Posts: 72 Likes: 1 | I am curious, is there anyone that has HPV related cancer that had a dental bone graft within a few years before their cancer? I had 2 grafts for molar implants, but I don't know if they were bovine or cadaver tissue. My cancerous lymph node was on the same side as the bone grafts. I would think it's theoretically poissble a virus could survive in that tissue? Any thoughts or similar experience?
Enlarged left cervical lymph node in neck on 1/9/18. Male, age 60. Had retired from working as a computer technician and a project manager for almost 38 years, on 7/1/17.
Node was removed 1/16/18 and found to have SCC P16.
Chest xray clean.
Since then, PET/CT, slight activity left parotid, possible malignancy left lingual tonsil. MRI clean.
3 endoscopies, nothing seen.
2/26/18 Larryngoscopy,primary not found.
TORS 3/23/18 lingual tonsil biopsy.,biopsy negative.
Chemo/rads started 4/18/18.
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Joined: Aug 2018 Posts: 345 Likes: 8 | having spent 17 yrs teaching at a dental school but back when implants were brand new, i have wondered about this myself. I had a tooth pulled this year because it broke and I seriously am not interested in having an implant. I think about these very things happening.
I have never heard of it being a cause of oral cancer but I don't want titanium in my mouth either let alone animal bone though I would not need any according to the oral surgeon.
Spouse of 58 yr old with BOT cancer
Stage 4a HPV16 positive
3 chemo treatments cisplantin
35 radiation treatments 7000 cGy
former smoker/chewed tobacco for 38 yrs.
1/2020 diagnosed with cancer near TMJ
4/2020 chemo 5 days every 2 weeks
6/2020 proton therapy
9/21/2020 cancer free
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Joined: Mar 2018 Posts: 72 Likes: 1 | I would think, just like with blood donation, there probably is some screening on what human grafts they would accept. But the problem I see here, is that you cannot detect HPV in men unless they get cancer. A cadaver could have been a carrier who never developed the cancer. So this could be an issue no one has considered because head and neck cancer is still relatively rare compared to other cancers.
Enlarged left cervical lymph node in neck on 1/9/18. Male, age 60. Had retired from working as a computer technician and a project manager for almost 38 years, on 7/1/17.
Node was removed 1/16/18 and found to have SCC P16.
Chest xray clean.
Since then, PET/CT, slight activity left parotid, possible malignancy left lingual tonsil. MRI clean.
3 endoscopies, nothing seen.
2/26/18 Larryngoscopy,primary not found.
TORS 3/23/18 lingual tonsil biopsy.,biopsy negative.
Chemo/rads started 4/18/18.
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