Jamie Dimon has CA aka Cancer of throat

[littlemissmartypants]

Why should we care?

“It wouldn’t be unusual,” says Eric Genden, chief of head and neck oncology at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. “This is an epidemic.”

More at link.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2014/07/02/why-thousands-of-men-like-j-p-morgan-ceo-jamie-dimon-are-getting-throat-cancer/

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We need better reproductive health education in our world. Sex positive is a good thing but we need better sex education. Talk to your children.
Love, Peace and Shelter. littlemissmartypants

[monmouth3]

1. Not with a ten foot pole..Nope, Nope, Nope....n/t

[octoberlib]

3. Lol

[littlemissmartypants]

5. You sillie.nt

[octoberlib]

2. Wow. I didn't know anything about this.

But Genden says that 70% to 90% of head and neck cancer cases worldwide are now caused by HPV; the American Cancer Society estimates that this year, there will be 42,440 cases of head and neck cancer in the U.S.

Traditionally, head and neck cancer patients were older men who smoke and drank heavily. The alcohol and tobacco damaged the cells in the throat, eventually leading to cancer.


HPV-caused cancer is different. The men (and it’s still mostly men) who get it are younger. In a series of cases at Mount Sinai, they were between 35 and 65.

[littlemissmartypants]

4. Epidemic. eom

Thanks for the kick!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. That's the same type of cancer my brother has. It's a persistent fucker that keeps coming back. nt

[littlemissmartypants]

10. Sorry to hear of

Your brothers condition.
This is really no laughing matter. Talking about sex in a positive out in the sunlight way is something we have to afford ourselves and our children.

[Feron]

33. I wish your brother well.

[The Magistrate]

7. Good, Ma'am --- I Suggest Surgery....

"Every normal man must at times be tempted to raise the black flag, splt on his hands, and begin cutting throats."

[leftstreet]

8. I saw what you did there

cutting...slitting

Tomato, Tomahto

[littlemissmartypants]

9. Give me liberty or

Hand me the scalpel, you hold the scapula. 3..2..1

You sillie, too. Btw.

[KamaAina]

11. Has he been fooling around with Catherine Zeta-Jones?

[littlemissmartypants]

12. Have you?

Wonder why she would be suspect?

[KamaAina]

13. We went through this same throat cancer revelation thing with Michael Douglas

a few months back.

And no, I have not. I suppose one advantage of being terminally single is a decreased risk of throat cancer.

[littlemissmartypants]

18. Terminally single?

How long since your diagnosis?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1237

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1237&pid=526

[KamaAina]

19. Since the Bush administration.

The legitimate, elected one.

[LadyHawkAZ]

14. "Jamie Dimon has California of throat"

That's how I read the title. I had to open the thread to see how one gets a state caught in their throat; you'd think if that was going to happen, it would be Florida. I'm kinda glad I didn't find out.

[littlemissmartypants]

17. Oops, medical acronym. nt

[Hassin Bin Sober]

24. Might want to edit. It's pretty confusing.

That said, I'm not going to joke about cancer.

My dentist is all about checking for this type of cancer. He says he sees quite a bit - I forget the number he told me but it was alarming.

[littlemissmartypants]

26. We need to talk about this. Thanks for

The suggestion and the kick.

[Union Scribe]

15. k/r Hopefully the vaccine will

go a long way toward slowing down this trend. Frightening stuff.

[littlemissmartypants]

30. Virus. Dead.

From HPV or HIV or H1N1 is still. Dead. Thanks for joining the conversation.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

16. He should retire and look after his health. After all, if you don't have your health you don't have

anything -- including our money.

[Ilsa]

20. Are women getting this diagnosis frequently, too?

Or is it mostly affecting men?

[littlemissmartypants]

21. Thank you for asking.

I don't think we have scratched the surface on this. I am interested in any research we can find. Please share anything.

[Ilsa]

22. I try to stay up to date on sex ed type stuff.

Cancer from HPV certainly qualifies.

Now, if only more men understood contraception...

[littlemissmartypants]

23. Seriously I have seen

Dams for oral sex but I have never used one and No BJ without a condom? I'm concerned about all of the young women in our society (local middle school age) that are part of the "Technical Virgin" trend. Won't have "sex" this is intercourse, before marriage, cause duh 'religion' but... will engage in oral sex readily. On school grounds. This is an epidemic: not approaching reproductive health as a natural and necessary part of healthcare and wellness could kill us. Virus. Dead.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

25. It's the same thing that causing Ovarian cancer, IIRC, so yes.

edit: cervical cancer?

[littlemissmartypants]

28. Thank you for joining the conversation. nt

[Hassin Bin Sober]

37. I had a bit of a scare with this issue a couple years ago.

It turned out to be an over abundance of caution on my Dentist's part.

During a routine exam he paused and started investigating a spot on my tongue. And then he gave me the "I don't want to alarm you but..."

That was Thursday morning. He referred me to a surgeon and I was able to book an appointment first thing Monday.

I'd be a liar if I said I wasn't nervous. I did manage to spend the weekend out of town and resist the urge to google "oral cancer".

Then I made the mistake of logging on to DU Sunday night when I got back in to town.

By chance, I happened to run across an OP by beloved DUer AlienGirl. She posted an OP talking about why it's not cool to make fun of people with bad teeth because you never know the story behind their bad teeth. She then listed all the havoc cancer and radiation played on her mouth - starting with a spot on her tongue all the way through radiation destroying her teeth and jaw. Absolutely heartbreaking.

Sadly, AlienGirl has since passed from the disease.

[littlemissmartypants]

27. One article.

 Human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18 cause 60%–70% of cervical cancer worldwide, and other HPV types cause virtually all remaining cases. 

http://m.jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/97/14/1072.short

[AngryAmish]

29. Would rhe vaccine help rhose already infected?

[littlemissmartypants]

31. The vaccine is specific to certain types.

It depends on the type. Here again we have evidence education is a weak link. We must talk about sex as if our lives depend on it.
Oh, wait wut???
Irony. Second only to comedy and tragedy. Thanks for joining the conversation.

[Feron]

32. My uncle died at 50 of throat cancer in April.

He was a severe alcoholic and a chainsmoker however. I don't know if he had HPV.

In June last year, he had what he thought was a bad case of bronchitis and went to the ER. When the initial visit didn't provide relief, he went back, was scanned, and that's when the tumor was found. At that point, he was already stage IV and the tumor ran down the back of his neck.

My uncle could have opted for treatment, but the surgery would have been very disfiguring and he would not have been complaint with treatment. Given the options, my uncle chose palliative care. So he got a trach, good meds, and a few months later moved to hospice.

My uncle actually enjoyed hospice and he made his goal of making 50. So he died a happy man.

The only warning signs in hindsight were that his voice years ago changed and became gravelly. He also had a nagging cough, but being a smoker he dismissed it.

Anyhow I'm grateful that SSI and Medicaid were there to help. I don't know what we've would've done without them.

I'm both sad that he's gone and relieved. When a loved one is an addict, it's complicated.

Anyhow my uncle donated his body to science so maybe he can help in some way. Hell they could study him for the resilience of the human body. The doctor that did the biopsy was surprised to see a man with that large of a tumor walk in without assistance.

[littlemissmartypants]

35. Having each other and for such a short time. He was blessed to have you in his life.

As we're you in some way.

[riderinthestorm]

34. Cancer is evil. That said, how karmic.... nt

[littlemissmartypants]

36. Virus. Dead. eom