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Erin Andrews has cervical cancer.


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1 hour ago, Jeremy Igo said:

HPV is running rampant. Basically anyone who has been sexually active has had it. I know lots of women in the same situation as her. 

 

Vaccinate your teens, people. 

The reason is because getting HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) happens to almost every single sexually active woman. The issue is not truly whether you get it or not but whether it progresses to a carcinoma.

For females getting regular pap-smears every 3 years is recommended, however some OBGYN's still believe in yearly screening- which I tend to agree with.  

Vaccination, as Jermey, says is the only true way to prevent cancer. Females and Males should get the vaccine. 

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1 hour ago, PrimeTimeHeel said:

isnt it pretty low risk and very rarely to women die from it in western societies?

I personally have known 2 women who have died from cervical cancer which had metastasized. One was in her early 30's, the other early 40's.

1 hour ago, Adb6368 said:

If I'm understanding correctly, the title should be changed to *had

Sounds like it...hope it turns out to be the case.

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39 minutes ago, SOJA said:

The reason is because getting HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) happens to almost every single sexually active woman. The issue is not truly whether you get it or not but whether it progresses to a carcinoma.

For females getting regular pap-smears every 3 years is recommended, however some OBGYN's still believe in yearly screening- which I tend to agree with.  

Vaccination, as Jermey, says is the only true way to prevent cancer. Females and Males should get the vaccine. 

Yep. Many in the medical community think that HPV is linked to the growing occurrence of mouth and throat cancers in men who don't have the typical risk factors - smoking and/or heavy drinking.

I just had my tonsils yanked about 9 months ago because one of them just blew up. The doctors weren't really concerned about cancer in my case due to lack of risk factors (smoking, heavy drinking, age) but they basically told me that the only way to know for certain was to yank them and biopsy them, plus there had to be something going on to cause it. Turned out to just be a localized infection.

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