It may be a long way of meaning anything for humans,but it was just nice seeing a title that read "Cured of Cancer"

http://www1.wfubmc.edu/news/NewsArticle.htm?Articleid=1840

That would probably also be a totally non-invasive treatment as it seems they'd be infused in through an IV or a catheter of some type. If it worked - it would eliminate the disfigurement of oral cancer treatments!

That article was added to our OC in the news section a while ago from a different source. Considering how much work goes into seeing that that section of the web site stays up to date several times a week, I wish that more people would spend time in it. Don't take offense senator, your still a newbie around here, but people - please take a look at the work that goes into the hundreds of pages of the main body of the web site. There is a reason we are the number one ranked Goggle site, number one oral cancer referral site out of the NCI, ACS, and hundreds more.... and it isn't because of this message board.

Thanks Brian. I did think that I orignially found it here, but when I did a search for it on this site, it didn't come up (but a lot of other articles with the word "wake" did, so maybe I was doing it wrong). Amy, I am glad you enjoyed it. I can't imagine what it would be like to live in a "cancer free" world. I bet people felt the same way when they invented antibiotics!

Dreamers- remember the most astonding bit of cancer progress in the last 100 years is that this week a vaccine, Guardasil, which is 100% effective, will send a killer cancer into oblvion, the way of polio. It will take a few decades for large populations to be immunized, and besides eliminating forever cervical cancers, it will likely eliminate as collateral damage many head and neck cancers that are HPV related.

Just a note...it wouldn't be eliminating all cervical cancers. They are not all HPV related . There are a couple of rare forms of cervical cancer that are nore difficult to treat.

World-wide, according to Dr. Gillison at Hopkins, 95% of cervical cancers are caused by five HPV types -- 16, 18, 31, 33, and 35 -- the rate is lower in USA as other HPVs are involved (as well as other causes, as Kerry notes) -- about 70% as I recall.

Dr. G. has been involved in a trial of a new therapeutic HPV-16 vaccine which has been tested for about a year on cervical cancer patients and she has started a trial with this vaccine on HNC patients, as I have mentioned before. *If* it proves successful, it will be another arsenal in the fight against oral and cervical cancers.

Gail

Human papillomavirus (HPV) has been around for thousands of years. Early Greek and Roman medical records describe genital warts associated with sexual activity.19

In the mid-19th century, scientists reported that cervical cancer never occurred in celibate nuns or virgins, an indication of its relationship to sexual activity.20

Papilloma virus was initially isolated from rabbits in 1933.21

Well, my best friend is one of the miniscul numbers and rare cases that an HPV vaccine would not save, which I consider worth splitting hairs about.

She is being treated by a top ocologist in Boston. It may be in her best interest to share this with him considering this is saying she received a false diagnosis. Someone doesn't have their facts straight.

Treatments would be the same regardless of the etiology that brought someone to the disease, so it is kind of an academic discussion at this stage of things. And that DOES NOT make it a false diagnosis, diagnosis is less concered with mechanism of incidence than determination of the condition that exists. After that, the treatment process for a particular stage and location is pretty much going to be determined by established protocols that have shown themselves to be effective. If eitiology were a factor in treatment desision, than this conversation would have importance, as it alters the patient's path. That is not the case.