HPV........??

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  • Marynb
    Marynb Member Posts: 1,118
    #22
    jcruz said:

    Seems vulvar cancer is also a

    Seems vulvar cancer is also a rare one but is related to HPV infection in some cases.

    Quoting from the ACS page on vulvar cancer:

    "In the United States, vulvar cancer accounts for about 4% of cancers of the female reproductive organs and 0.6% of all cancers in women. In the United States, women have a 1 in 406 chance of developing vulvar cancer at some point during their life.

    The American Cancer Society's estimates for vulvar cancer in the United States for 2013 are:

    • About 4,700 cancers of the vulva will be diagnosed

    • About 990 women will die of this cancer."

    and

    "About half of all vulvar cancers are linked to infection with the high-risk HPV types. HPV linked vulvar cancer is more common in younger women and is seen less often in older women. Some doctors think there are 2 kinds of vulvar cancer. One is associated with HPV infection and tends to occur in younger women. The other kind is not associated with HPV infection, and more often is found in older women."

     

    I did have cancerous cells on my vulva and was given extra radiation treatment targetted to that area.

    Odds
    Sometimes I have to scratch my head and wonder how I ever got hpv when I had been married over 20 years? What the heck ?
  • sephie
    sephie Member Posts: 650 Member
    #23
    too much detail

    hey, i got off into a tangent....do the best you can.....what a wonderful opportunity..... i know that you can not state all the graphic details because it would be r rated , maybe x rated....you can do it and will help a lot of people...... hugs to you.....  sephie

  • eihtak
    eihtak Member Posts: 1,473 Member
    #24
    sephie said:

    too much detail

    hey, i got off into a tangent....do the best you can.....what a wonderful opportunity..... i know that you can not state all the graphic details because it would be r rated , maybe x rated....you can do it and will help a lot of people...... hugs to you.....  sephie

    Done....

    Hi Everyone, and thank you so much for your input. I just completed the interview and although it was longer than I anticipated I know they will cut a lot and may end up just a blurp! At least I educated the news staff and that is a few more than yesterday. I was able to be fairly descriptive without being too graphic, but again the focus was mostly to encourage getting the vaccine.

    I keep replaying everything I said and how I looked and hope I won't be disappointed! Oh well.....done.

  • Marynb
    Marynb Member Posts: 1,118
    #25
    eihtak said:

    Done....

    Hi Everyone, and thank you so much for your input. I just completed the interview and although it was longer than I anticipated I know they will cut a lot and may end up just a blurp! At least I educated the news staff and that is a few more than yesterday. I was able to be fairly descriptive without being too graphic, but again the focus was mostly to encourage getting the vaccine.

    I keep replaying everything I said and how I looked and hope I won't be disappointed! Oh well.....done.

    Eihtak
    That is great! So glad you did this. I wish there was an active anal cancer foundation that could do a national media blitz. There is so much misunderstanding about this disease and because it is most often misdiagnosed for years, the public needs to know the symptoms so lives could be saved!

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