Cervical Cancer Chat - January 8, 2014

Happy New Year !

January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month so we decided that this month's chat topic would be cervical cancer. Some of the topics we discussed were symptoms and diagnosis, the stigma of the disease, fertility issues, HPV and the HPV vaccine. We were pleased to have Tamika Felder, survivor and founder of Tamika and Friends and Katie Brown survivor and Director of Support and Advocacy for Lungevity share their experience with us.

We had 33 participants, 379 tweets and over 980,000 impressions. A transcript from the chat can be found here.

Next chat: Clinical Trials Continued - Wednesday,  February 12, 2014 at  9pm EST


Resources:

Cervivor - a community, a learning tool, an advocacy resource, and an online retreat for healing, connecting and thriving.

http://cervivor.org/

CDC - Symptoms of Cervical Cancer

http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/cervical/basic_info/symptoms.htm

HPV Myths & Misconceptions with Fact Sheet

http://www.ashasexualhealth.org/std-sti/hpv/myths-and-misconceptions.html

CDC - HPV Vaccines

http://www.cdc.gov/hpv/vaccine.html

Postlicensure safety surveillance for quadrivalent human papillomavirus recombinant vaccine.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/19690307/?i=4&from=cdc%20hpv%20vaccine%20adverse%20events

Sorrow and teaching in an oncologist's office - OpEd

http://articles.mcall.com/2006-07-20/opinion/3689304_1_cervical-cancer-pap-smears-new-cancer-vaccine

Skills for Thriving in Modern Times - Video

http://t.co/nNmxfIv2lS

National Cervical Cancer Coalition

http://www.nccc-online.org/

http://www.inspire.com/groups/national-cervical-cancer-coalition/

ASCO Cervical Cancer Fact Sheet

http://www.cancer.net/sites/cancer.net/files/asco_answers_cervical.pdf

100 Questions & Answers About Cervical Cancer - Book

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0763754471

100 Questions & Answers About HPV - Book

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Amazon.com+100+Questions+%26+Answers+About+HPV&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3AAmazon.com+100+Questions+%26+Answers+About+HPV

FWC: What Every Woman Should Know About Cervical Cancer - Video

http://youtu.be/mtojVs9b150

CDC Prevent Cervical Cancer Infographic

http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/cervical/basic_info/infographic.htm

Reimagine: The Other Half of Care - Video

http://youtu.be/1mkT8lnUcMo

Thriver Soup Thursdays: A Feast for Living Consciously - Blog

http://www.heidibright.com/blog

Gary Thompson Story/CLOUD, Inc. Inspiration - Article

http://penangmonthly.com/the-internets-cloud-y-future/

See you next month, 

Dee