#gyncsm Community: January 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