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pascotty
pascotty Member Posts: 174 Member
in Head and Neck Cancer #1
Yesterday in the paper there was a story on the guy who developed the hpv injection. It seems that in 12 months he will have a vaccine for skin cancer. His studies have shown that cancer is caused by a virus and he believes all cancer is caused by hpv. Really interesting that maybe one day it will be a common vaccine to prevent cancer.
Another story I read is that head and neck cancer is not the same as oral cancer and our treatment should be reassessed and not treated the same as head and neck c. Anyone know anything about either info. Xxxxo

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  • Lelia
    Lelia Member Posts: 98
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    HPV and tonsil/throat cancer + viruses that cause cancer
    Since 1996, our oncologist Maura L. Gillison has been on the leading edge of the research you mention; having begun her work at Johns Hopkins, it continues at Ohio State University's James Cancer Center.

    There's an interesting '09 story in Forbes on her work, I don't think I'm allowed to post links here, it's the 11/02/09 issue of Forbes. Googling her name plus HPV or other key words brings much captivating reading on her work as well as tonsil/throat cancer.

    Let me add, Dr. Gillison isn't just a great research scientist and MD. She's a wonderful person we rely on a great deal and her nurse practitioner Joni Lutman RN is absolutely the best in the business. These two women have our lifelong respect & affection and in many ways we owe Don's survival to them along with our surgeon, Matt Old.
  • nwasen
    nwasen Member Posts: 235 Member
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    Lelia said:

    HPV and tonsil/throat cancer + viruses that cause cancer
    Since 1996, our oncologist Maura L. Gillison has been on the leading edge of the research you mention; having begun her work at Johns Hopkins, it continues at Ohio State University's James Cancer Center.

    There's an interesting '09 story in Forbes on her work, I don't think I'm allowed to post links here, it's the 11/02/09 issue of Forbes. Googling her name plus HPV or other key words brings much captivating reading on her work as well as tonsil/throat cancer.

    Let me add, Dr. Gillison isn't just a great research scientist and MD. She's a wonderful person we rely on a great deal and her nurse practitioner Joni Lutman RN is absolutely the best in the business. These two women have our lifelong respect & affection and in many ways we owe Don's survival to them along with our surgeon, Matt Old.

    Maura Gillison
    Lelia
    Don must have gone to the James for his treatment? That is where I went also and I do believe I met Dr. gillison. My doc, Dr. Teknos found HPV in my cancer also.
    Thanks for the info, I just googled Forbes and read the article. They told me had I not had HPV present in my mass my survival rate was about 60 per cent but with it my rate upped to 80 per cent.
    I love the James. I found all docs, nurses, techs, receptionists and even the cleaning people to be loving and caring and kind. If I lived in Columbus I would be a volunteer there in a heartbeat.
    Peace
    Nancy
  • Hondo
    Hondo Member Posts: 6,636 Member
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    Vaccine

    Thanks for the information; I too hope that soon someone would come up with some kind of Vaccine to help people with C. It is about time with all the money put into research that something other then a better chemo comes out of it. Right now my cousin wife it at MD Anderson dying, they are only giving her a few weeks at the most.

    Cancer sucks
    Hondo
  • jim and i
    jim and i Member Posts: 1,788 Member
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    Hondo said:

    Vaccine

    Thanks for the information; I too hope that soon someone would come up with some kind of Vaccine to help people with C. It is about time with all the money put into research that something other then a better chemo comes out of it. Right now my cousin wife it at MD Anderson dying, they are only giving her a few weeks at the most.

    Cancer sucks
    Hondo

    Hondo, so sorry to hear
    Hondo, so sorry to hear about your cousins wife. Praying she has a peaceful last few days and that your cousin finds comfort in the Lord's arms.

    Debbie
  • Hondo
    Hondo Member Posts: 6,636 Member
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    jim and i said:

    Hondo, so sorry to hear
    Hondo, so sorry to hear about your cousins wife. Praying she has a peaceful last few days and that your cousin finds comfort in the Lord's arms.

    Debbie

    Hi Debbie

    Thanks and yes she made her peace with the Lord. she just made 40th last week and leaves behind a husband two small children.

    Hondo
  • Skiffin16
    Skiffin16 Member Posts: 8,305 Member
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    Hondo said:

    Hi Debbie

    Thanks and yes she made her peace with the Lord. she just made 40th last week and leaves behind a husband two small children.

    Hondo

    Sorry Brother
    Thoughts and Prayers with you, her and your families......

    ~John
  • Greend
    Greend Member Posts: 678
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    Hondo said:

    Hi Debbie

    Thanks and yes she made her peace with the Lord. she just made 40th last week and leaves behind a husband two small children.

    Hondo

    Sorry Hondo
    Prayers are with her family.
  • palmyrafan
    palmyrafan Member Posts: 396
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    Hondo said:

    Hi Debbie

    Thanks and yes she made her peace with the Lord. she just made 40th last week and leaves behind a husband two small children.

    Hondo

    Prayers
    Hondo,

    My thoughts and prayers are with you and your entire family during this difficult time.

    Teresa
  • Tuongvi
    Tuongvi Member Posts: 20
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    Vaccine
    My new head and neck Dr. Sara Pai at JHU has a clinical trial on a vaccine that will prevent HPV+ cancer from comming back. Dr. Pai is waiting FDA approval for the trial. She hope to get the approval in the next couple of weeks and start the trial in the end of the summer. She has a video regarding to this trial on the JHU Cancer Center Website. She was looking for head and next HPV+ cancer patients with Stage III or IV to partipcipate.
    Thuy
  • RushFan
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    palmyrafan said:

    Prayers
    Hondo,

    My thoughts and prayers are with you and your entire family during this difficult time.

    Teresa

    Hondo
    I'm sorry to read this Hondo, thoughts and prayer for you and your family.
    Chuck.
  • Tuongvi
    Tuongvi Member Posts: 20
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    Hondo said:

    Hi Debbie

    Thanks and yes she made her peace with the Lord. she just made 40th last week and leaves behind a husband two small children.

    Hondo

    Hondo
    It’s hurt to hear your cousin’s wife situation. All we hope for is miracle will happen to your cousin wife.
    Thuy/Huong
  • osmotar
    osmotar Member Posts: 1,006
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    Tuongvi said:

    Vaccine
    My new head and neck Dr. Sara Pai at JHU has a clinical trial on a vaccine that will prevent HPV+ cancer from comming back. Dr. Pai is waiting FDA approval for the trial. She hope to get the approval in the next couple of weeks and start the trial in the end of the summer. She has a video regarding to this trial on the JHU Cancer Center Website. She was looking for head and next HPV+ cancer patients with Stage III or IV to partipcipate.
    Thuy

    JHU
    JHU - is that Johns Hopkins in Baltimore?
  • Tuongvi
    Tuongvi Member Posts: 20
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    osmotar said:

    JHU
    JHU - is that Johns Hopkins in Baltimore?

    JHU
    Yes!
    Thuy
  • osmotar
    osmotar Member Posts: 1,006
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    Tuongvi said:

    JHU
    Yes!
    Thuy

    My daughter is a senior
    My daughter is a senior project eng there. I read the articles about Dr. Pai, very interesting.

    Linda

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