Oral Sex and Risk for Oral HPV Infection and Oropharyngeal Cancer

Her work established an etiologic role for HPV in oral cancers. She will present the history of oral HPV infection, risk factors for HPV-associated cancer, clinical and prognostic implications of a diagnosis of HPV-associated oral cancer, and she will talk about developing and completing clinical trials of HPV-specific targeted immunotherapy in human subjects. Her research has been cited as one of the most important cancer advances by the American Society of Clinical Oncology