There are so many great organizations helping raise awareness of cervical cancer and providing direct services to cervical cancer survivors. The National Cervical Cancer Coalition was founded in 1996 and has continued to grow ever since. The Gynecologic Cancer Foundation also... Read More
I love hearing from cancer survivors. I enjoy getting to know them and listening to their unique stories. A beautiful organization and website I adore is Voices of Survivors, which explores what “survivorship” means to individual “survivors.” In honor of cervical... Read More
If MacGyver was a nurse and needed to do a cervical cancer screening in the wilderness, this is the one he would use – visual inspection with acetic acid, or VIA*. I think he was more into wires and bomb... Read More
If you have ever had sexual intercourse or plan on having sex in the future, there’s a pretty good chance you either currently have HPV, have had HPV in the past, or will have HPV in the future. According to... Read More
päp-ə-ˈnē-kə-ˌlau You may know it more fondly as Pap – like Pap test or Pap smear. Okay, so maybe “fondly” is not the first word that comes to mind when thinking about stirrups, speculums, and cervical scrapings. Unless maybe it... Read More
Take a deep breath. Go on. [Deep breath in through the nose…1, 2, 3, 4, 5…deep breath out through the mouth…6, 7, 8, 9, 10.] Hopefully you inhaled wonderful, smoke-free air. Some of you may not have been fortunate to do so.... Read More
While reading through The New Your Times Picture Your Life After Cancer site, I came upon Tyler’s picture and post. Tyler points out that, according to the American Cancer Society, 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women will... Read More
A colleague directed me to the New Your Times Picture Your Life After Cancer site this week. I was moved reading story after story, but the thought that struck me most was there are too many pictures here. What’s even... Read More
Last week Spain announced an anti-smoking law that is likely to turn the EU’s fourth largest tobacco producer from a cigarette-friendly land abounding with smoky bars and restaurants, into one of Europe’s most stringently smokeless. The law prohibits lighting up... Read More
I love seeing untraditional posters that still convey the point. Check out this poster from CanTeen, presented at the November 2010 LIVESTRONG Young Adult Alliance meeting.... Read More