There was a doctor on our tv here the day before yesterday. His opinion seemed to be that she was doing a really great thing by raising awareness so that other people who have symptoms (e.g. itching in that area) will not just ignore it, but will get medical advice because he said that if the first symptoms can be treated then it is most likely that the prognosis is good. Edited to add: He also talked about some of the risk factors for some people and about prevention as well, but his emphasis was about symptoms which can easily be mistaken for something quite different.

I don't think it matters what type of cancer a person has, or what *may* have caused it. The person has cancer and that's a shocking thing always. If a person who has HCV ends up progressing to liver cancer... we don't sit around wondering how they got their HCV... we care that they have liver cancer. Just another example.

As this doctor said on our tv... no one seems to have heard about this type of cancer that Farrah has and it's very rare, but this is raising awareness. People are talking and learning and hopefully if some of the really early symptoms appear it can help prevent such horrible surgery and shocking illness as some have described above. I think that's always admirable.