@dmanc
Thank you for the article. I did read it.

I think what I read was there was some evidence that vaccine injections could help with reinfection not eliminating HPV you already have. I do see now a real push to have young teens to get the vaccine to keep from getting infected at all.

Not a medical professional so really hard for me to read and understand studies like this so may have read it wrong.

In my case I think my HPV came back because of a reduction in my immune system and caused a SCC. In 2023 I had 30 rounds on proton radiation to treat prostate cancer. My R/Os told me raditation like chemo can affect immune system and fatique.

Then someone else on MCC posted that they were told their SCC occurred from immune system after radiation. So seems to be popping up as a possible cause of SCCs.

When you have treatments that affect your immune system it can allow the HPV to become active again. Why HPV is seeming to be causing SCCs in wounds past and present is something not explained to me.

Hopefully the farther I get away from my end of radiation treatments my immune system will be back to normal and won't have any more SCCs caused by the HPV. I have had about 8 basal cell cancer all contributed to sun damage. The SCC I got and was told by dermatologist was most likely related to HPV virus was in a non sun area and thus the explanation they believed caused by the HPV virus.

In either way they removed it and since then no additional SCCs or BCCs have been detected on biopsies taken of suspicious areas.
Thanks for the article