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Opinion: We’re two shots away from preventing HPV-related cancers
Putting the HPV vaccine on the list of immunizations needed for school entry can help end some eminently preventable cancers.
I was 27 years old when I got the news that I had cancer. At the time I was working on President Obama’s re-election in 2011 — a dream come true — but there I was, on the campaign trail, living with acute myeloid leukemia, the deadliest of blood cancers.
On paper, this is a disease of . But I was a young woman with decades ahead of me in dreams and milestones. No one really knew how to treat me — as a patient or a person — because cancer is supposed to be an older person’s disease. My doctors didn’t use the “normal” protocol for acute myeloid leukemia on me because there’s little data
