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Bonnie,

Count me in on your side, and astonished. Cancer is cancer. That doesn't seem like rocket science. I'm sorry you've recently been through this. Believe me, on EmpowHer you're a survivor x 4!

Anal cancer has been in the news lately through Farrah Fawcett's story, and it's clear that it doesn't get the attention (and research and funding) that some other cancers get, partly because some see it as preventable and also because it's difficult to talk about for many. It's clear, when we see someone with the means of Ms. Fawcett needing to travel to Germany for treatment, that we are not where we should be regarding this kind of cancer.

(And on the preventable part, we could all throw in the fact that one of the most prevalent cancers, lung cancer, is largely preventable if people would not smoke. Yet we don't dismiss it in the same way that we dismiss anal cancer.)

I urge you to keep writing about your story. I would love to hear more about your journey, and I know that if you wrote more about it -- how you discovered it, what your treatments have been, and the recurrence you're dealing with now -- it will only help awareness, and you will give other women important information about their own health and well-being.

What are you dealing with now?

June 24, 2009 - 6:39am

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