Savage Love Loves Me
I guess this breaks the whole anonymity of Savage Love, but who cares. I’m excited!I got published in this week’s Savage Love!
Q. You missed an opportunity in a recent column to talk about HPV and its association with anal cancer. It’s 35 times more common in the gay male population and isn’t being screened for very well. In fact, it’s now more common in gay men than cervical cancer is in women. If anal cancer is diagnosed early, mortality rates are much lower. Please let your readers know! —STANFORD MED STUDENT
A. Now they know, SMS.
(We had the world expert on anal cancer come talk to our class about HPV. He’s featured as having the worst science job: anal wart researcher.)
That’s so funny that it was really you, because I immediately thought of over my med body when I read that in his column this week.
Saw your comments- perhaps you would be interested in letting people know that we are recruiting gay men 16-26 years old to participate in a HPV vaccine study to prevent anal HPV infection with two cancer-causing types and 2 types that cause genital warts. We can be reached at 415-353-7527- or can call my office for further info- 415-476-1574.
Thanks-
Joel
Saw your comment. It’s great that a med student is so on top of this info. I’m a resident at Stanford now with a career interest in gay/lesbian health issues. Does anyone know if there are specialists who have expertise in this here?