Dr. Young specializes in the surgical treatment of cancers affecting the head and neck, including the mouth, throat, larynx, swallowing passages, thyroid, and salivary glands as well as skin cancers on the scalp, face, or neck. He has special expertise and experience in transoral robotic surgery and transoral laser microsurgery.
We are seeing more virus-related cancers and this particular virus, HPV, causes a certain type of throat cancer that is exponentially increasing in our country. You can be exposed to it from your birth mother, you can be exposed to it from your first kiss, you can be exposed to it in many, many different ways.
Recently, tennis great Martina Navratilova announced she was diagnosed with throat cancer caused by HPV. NBC 6 spoke to a local father sharing his experience.