Cervical Cancer
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New York Pap Rally and Run for Cervical Cancer!
Did you know that every year over 12,000 women will be diagnosed with cervical cancer and that over 4,000 women will die from this preventable disease? Or that in the United States, Hispanic women are the most likely to be diagnosed with cervical cancer?
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January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month
Imagine never being able to have a child not because you choose to, but because you were diagnosed with an advance cancer and need a hysterectomy. Or being happily married for some time and on a routine appointment with your gynecologist, find out you have cancer – caused by a sexually transmitted infection. Or how about needing to cut costs to make ends meet, so you cut your health insurance. Only to find out five years later when you finally go to see your gynecologist than you have cancer. These are the real life stories of women that were diagnosed with cervical cancer, women just like me and you, whose lives were…
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Cervical Cancer Awareness Month
Via Every January we celebrate cervical cancer awareness month. The most preventable female cancer today still takes the lives of almost 5,000 women each year in the US. Do you know what cervical cancer is? Do you know that you more likely than not, have had HPV (human papillomavirus)? Have you scheduled your pap test, HPV test or asked your doctor if you are eligible for the HPV vaccine this year? What can we do to protect our daughters andsons? Read my article in Impacto Latin News: Cervical Cancer and Latina Women For more information on cervical cancer, learn how you can help out in your local community, or to connect with an…
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The annual Tamika & Friends New York “Walk To Beat The Clock”
Saturday, September 17, 2011, was the Tamika & Friends New York chapter’s annual walk for cervical cancer. Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, supporters, family and friends, the walk was a success! We raised close to $17,000 that will be used in our gift of giving, which pays for pap tests and also provides financial assistance to cervical cancer patients and survivors. Warming up before the walk! Thank you to our sponsors; hint water, pop chips, New York Pelvic Pain and Minimally Invasive Gynecological Surgery and the New York chapter of LATISM (Latinos In Social Media). While the entire executive board worked hard to make this walk a success, we could not have…
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Save the Date for Tamika & Friend’s New York Chapter Annual Walk September 17, 2011
Cervical cancer – have you heard of this horrible disease? The more I talk with women and various groups they tell me they “have heard of it” but do not know the facts nor how common it actually is. It is a cancer of the cervix, the opening from our vagina to the uterus and caused by the human papilloma virus (HPV). www.tamikaandfriends.org Some facts There are many strains of HPV, some cause genital warts, while others (mainly 2 strains) are responsible for up to 70% of all cervical cancers. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Approximately 20 million Americans are currently infected with HPV. Another 6 million…
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Chatting with the Chicas about Cervical Cancer
This past Thursday, Patti Murillo-Casa and I were fortunate enough to be able to chat with one of the hosts of blog talk radio show chicas chatting, Jennifer Hutcheson about cervical cancer. As one of the more preventable forms of cancer, Latina women are still disproportionately affected, at almost twice the rate of any other ethnic group. This is almost always die to lack of awareness and not going for routine checkups with their gynecologist. Early detection is key to increasing your rate of survival, and vaccines are available that help protect against 75% of the different types of HPV (human papillomavirus) that cause cervical cancer. As always, please be…
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Catching up with Christine Baze from the Yellow Umbrella Organization
January is Cervical Cancer awareness month and what better way to kick it off than an interview with Christine Baze, founder of the Yellow Umbrella organization. At the age of 31, you were diagnosed with Cervical Cancer, underwent a hysterectomy, radiation and chemotherapy, all within four months. What do you remember most about that time? After 13 normal pap smears, the thing I remember the most during that time was being overwhelmed with feelings of terror, disbelief, anger, sadness and pure fear – yet having to get up every day and deal with those feelings and do what was needed to be done to kick cancer’s butt. Which,…