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Fighting the stigma of STI cancers
Discuss the challenges that come with having a cancer associated with a sexually transmitted infection (STI).
HOW DO YOU TELL YOUR FAMILY
- By BeccaSL · New reply November 16, 2009
- 8 replies
- I just found out in August that I had HPV and abormal cells. After getting a colpo done, the doctor told me I have cervical intraepithelial neoplasia stage 2. I just got married this year, although my ...
Diane Harper - "Why Am I Scared of HPV?"
- By corellin · New reply November 16, 2009
- 23 replies
- Interesting paper by Dr. Harper geared toward clincians about patient education. http://caonline.amcancersoc.org/cgi/cont ent/full/54/5/245 ...
Need your input
- By ErinB248 · New reply October 21, 2009
- 18 replies
- Hey guys! So I have decided to take the bull by the horns! There is a HUGE problem out there with getting people adequate screening and dealing with the emotional effects of an HPV/dysplasia/cervical ...
life after HPV
- By chemistmatt422 · New reply October 19, 2009
- 7 replies
- Hey guys this is my second post. I am having a real hard time dealing with my wife that was diagnosed with HPV about 2 years ago. SHe had a fling with a guy before me that really bothers me, they just ...
my girl lied about hpv, love/realtionship advice
- By chemistmatt422 · New reply October 19, 2009
- 9 replies
- First this is my first post, and i have to say i am nervous. About 1 year and 2 months ago i met a great girl who i was really interested in. we started dating and about 3-4 weeks in we start having sex ...
crazy lawsuit
- By michellelwhitlock · New reply July 20, 2009
- 26 replies
- I heard a radio program talking about HPV yesterday morning. I was very upset because the host was misrepresenting HPV and cervical cancer...including calling the women nasty names and dirty. He was referencing ...
are we being selfish about farrah's death?
- By ariel1 · New reply July 1, 2009
- 34 replies
- i'm reading alot of posts by people who fell betrayed that more wasn't made of bringing awareness to the destructive ways of hpv, in the death of farrah fawcet. the day that she dies is not the day that ...
Good article on Farrah & Fighting HPV Stigma
- By corellin · New reply June 29, 2009
- 6 replies
- Farrah Fawcett's Anal Cancer: Fighting the Stigma http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Story?id=79 39402&page=2 ...
Stigma of HPV
- By meg09s · New reply May 21, 2009
- 13 replies
- When I first learned I had HPV, although I didn't automatically know what it was, I felt dirty. It was much like the feelings I had when an ex had given me Chlamydia four or so years ago (actually, research ...
Another Celeb with Cervical Cancer
- By corellin · New reply February 5, 2009
- 5 replies
- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people /news/jade-goodys-cancer-almost-certainl y-incurable-1545369.html ...
No one to talk to
- By LUCE · New reply January 22, 2009
- 7 replies
- Hi everybody. I'm having my leep done nxt wed, and although I' dreading it, I can't wait just to have it over and done with and get rid of my cin 111. I'm finding it harder and harder to cope with these ...
How does one bring the topic of hpv into a new relationship????
- By me1973 · New reply December 3, 2008
- 3 replies
- My question is since being told I have hpv I was married and now divorced for sometime.I have avoided being intimate as not to have to bring up the subject of this to anyone.My hpv is dormant and has ...
Beginning the search...
- By sweet_annabelle23 · New reply November 21, 2008
- 3 replies
- First of all, I have to say how touched I am by everyone in this community. I am a newbie to HPV. Three years ago, at 19 years old, I had an abnormal pap with results showing ASC-US. An HPV test returned ...
Can we STOP the madness?
- By Dacattmell · New reply November 6, 2008
- 8 replies
- In this day and time, a world scarey, not to mention DANGEROUS now days...it truly amazes me the STIGMAS placed on people DAILY. To actually think (and know) people are TOO afraid to go to a Doctor to ...
