Yesterday, Womenshealth.gov, the official website of the
Office on Women’s Health of the US Department of Health and Human Services published the story
of Michelle Whitlock, who was diagnosed with cervical cancer a month before her
27th birthday. The author describes the shock of receiving the diagnosis, as
she had always thought it could never happen to her. “I kept thinking: Not me,
I am not ‘that’ girl,” she writes.
The cancer was a result of being infected with human
papillomavirus (HPV), the most common sexually-transmitted infection in the
U.S., and a known cause of cervical (and several other) cancer. She describes
the feeling of isolation due to the stigma attached to HPV. However, as she
points out, HPV is incredibly common, and a person can contract it from only
one sexual encounter, with or without a condom. To treat the cancer, the author
had her cervix and uterus removed and also underwent radiation and chemotherapy……To Read More......
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