What Will It Take to Save Women from Cancer?
Redbook
Virginia Sole-Smith
March Issue

"It's nothing to be ashamed of; HPV is truly an equal-opportunity virus." Meanwhile, the causes of most other gynecologic cancers are either unknown or possibly genetic, though they may still be viewed as taboo. "We see 'stomach' cancer a lot in family trees, and it's often a euphemism for a gynecologic cancer that wasn't considered proper to talk about," says Joy Larsen Haidle, past president of the National Society of Genetic Counselors.