Schlesinger attributed it to a routine infection, but a previously planned visit to an ear, nose and throat physician led the specialist to conclude otherwise and immediately conduct an endoscopic examination of Schlesinger’s throat.
, which infects 75% of men, most of whom never experience symptoms or ever learn they carry the virus. In some cases, however, the virus leads to genital warts or certain kinds of cancer.is now available to protect young people from contracting the virus, but the vaccine is ineffective for individuals who have already been exposed to HPV.
in Houston, where he had entered a clinical trial run by a longtime trusted colleague engaged in the most advanced treatment of the disease.“Every day Judy and I walked to the dungeon, the MD Anderson basement, for my treatment,” Schlesinger, now back at work and appearing quite healthy, recalled in a recent interview, noting that he listened to Bruce Springsteen tunes while wearing “a Hannibal Lecter face mask” and getting 10 minute doses of radiation.