I take offense with her statement that it is "no big deal". No one is saying that women should be quivering in the corner with constant thoughts of developing precancerous or cancerous lesions from HPV but unfortunately far too many women don't even know what HPV is. She may have been talking about the low risk genital warts and not the high risk strains responsible for cancer and for that I would tend to agree with her. While disturbing it isn't that big a deal. High risk HPV is another story. I'm glad you do what is necessary to ensure your future health but for those unfamiliar with HPV and hearing about HPV perhaps for the first time via this interview they will be given the totally wrong impression. I don't consider trying to educate women scare mongering. HPV and HIV were both discovered in the same year 1983 and virtually everyone has heard of HIV. In research study after study it has been shown how few women have heard of HPV let alone understand that it is NOT JUST CERVICAL CANCER which they are at risk for. And, as I have written about in my book, Any Mother's Daughter, many doctors aren't all that up on the issue either so it makes it even more important that women know this information for themselves. I have seen so many women overtreated in direct contradiction to the treatment guidelines because of a doctor's lack of guideline application it's sickening and many have lost their fertility permanently through hysterectomies. I've lived with it for 25 years and certainly despite my cancers and repeated infections and required treatment still do not live in some constant state of fear over it so I would agree with you there.
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I take offense with her statement that it is "no big deal". No one is saying that women should be quivering in the corner with constant thoughts of developing precancerous or cancerous lesions from HPV but unfortunately far too many women don't even know what HPV is. She may have been talking about the low risk genital warts and not the high risk strains responsible for cancer and for that I would tend to agree with her. While disturbing it isn't that big a deal. High risk HPV is another story. I'm glad you do what is necessary to ensure your future health but for those unfamiliar with HPV and hearing about HPV perhaps for the first time via this interview they will be given the totally wrong impression. I don't consider trying to educate women scare mongering. HPV and HIV were both discovered in the same year 1983 and virtually everyone has heard of HIV. In research study after study it has been shown how few women have heard of HPV let alone understand that it is NOT JUST CERVICAL CANCER which they are at risk for. And, as I have written about in my book, Any Mother's Daughter, many doctors aren't all that up on the issue either so it makes it even more important that women know this information for themselves. I have seen so many women overtreated in direct contradiction to the treatment guidelines because of a doctor's lack of guideline application it's sickening and many have lost their fertility permanently through hysterectomies. I've lived with it for 25 years and certainly despite my cancers and repeated infections and required treatment still do not live in some constant state of fear over it so I would agree with you there.
December 22, 2011 - 7:39pmThis Comment
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