Marcia Cross is Opening Up About Her Battle with Anus Cancer

She got ass warts, HPV. She got cancer from anal sex. That cancer came from a warten cock. Farrah Fawcett also had asshole cancer. Cervical cancer comes from HPV too. So does oral and throat cancer.

She should have listened to TV grandmother Lois Kibbee when she screamed, "Don't touch it!"

She just confirmed she got it from anal sex via husband. Slut.

She appears unworried.

Please. Being judgmental about anal cancer here of all places? Guess you're all sluts, too.

I admire her for her honesty. It will help other people cope with disease that are considered unseemly. She has courage. May she live long and prosper.

Her husband also got throat cancer

I bet she wishes she would have stayed a lesbian

I find her cancer banal.

I had anal cancer, but didn't lose any hair from radiation and chemotherapy. There was no "spreading of the cheeks" either. I lay on my back while the radiation machine bombarded me. Fortunately, I had found the cancer early when sticking my fingers up in there to apply some lube. It was a growth protruding into my love canal.

You can get anal cancer without ever having had anal sex.

Mine was from having a lot of anal sex. Literally, impossible to count.

Happy belated birthday

I found out about DL after reading about the lesbian rumors related to Cross.

Jesus Christ she’s starting to enter Bride of Wildenstein territory .

Oh my. That's what Farrah died from.

I remember her as Kate Sanders from One Life to Live

Funny, but her face is stretched tighter than her anus.

Every time I see this woman’s name, I think of the OJ Simpson prosecutor. Why hasn’t this woman been forced to change her name?

She looks like the lead singer of the GoGos.

I lost a close friend to anal cancer last year. It’s no joke.

[quote]Oh my. That's what Farrah died from.

Let's hope that if she dies Janet Jackson doesn't bump her off the headlines by unexpectedly dying two hours later.

[quote] Every time I see this woman’s name, I think of the OJ Simpson prosecutor. Why hasn’t this woman been forced to change her name?

Maybe she could change it to Marcia Clark.

Still too close, R21.

She's brave to go public. I don't know that I could do the same.

"Opening up about anal cancer" is not a phrase I ever wanted to encounter.

Can men get anal cancer from HPV through anal sex?

Maybe she got it from whatever she put on her face? She looks like silly putty!

Remember when CZJ's poison pussy gave Michael Douglas throat cancer? And he told all of us? And then she went crazy with bipolar?

Marcia's next role.

No one noticed how gorgeous Kyle still looks at r11?

Having her cheeks filled with rubber goo doesn't help.

R29, "still looks"? Sheesh, someone needs their prescription checked. He's looked 10 years older than his age for the last 15 years....

I think Kyle looks a lot better in that pic than he looked on DH 15 years ago. Wonder what his deal is?

Either Kyle MacLachlan had his hair dyed for a reason, or that is an older picture because otherwise he wears his hair au naturel; grey to mostly white.

Kyle MacLachlan looks like scores of other older WASP men one sees roaming about UES or parts of Westchester.

Take note all you PREP users not using condoms

PSA: Gentlemen, Get Your Ass Swabbed for HPV / anal cancer. Save your ass. Save your life.

Dear Lord in Heaven!

The hair color might have been for the FDR series coming up on PBS, 33.

^ that was for R33.

R37, I'm interested in joining.

I know I always say this on HPV threads, but this is another reason to circumcise. Yes, those newish HPV vaccines will cut this stuff way down, but Evita died from HPV. It's likely she got it from un-circumcised guys.

R20, I saw what you did there.

Anal cancer cases are around 5000 a year 3000 women and 2000 men. In most women’s cases it’s not from anal sex.

[quote]Can men get anal cancer from HPV through anal sex?

They certainly can. PLEASE get your asshole swabbed and tested for HPV. Getting the sample is rather invasive, so if your doctor is hot (and mine is) you may enjoy it.

Gentlemen of a certain age

I hope she and her medical team got to the bottom of the problem and licked it.

Every time a guy presents hole, this is what I see smiling back at me.

What’s the difference between colon cancer, rectal cancer and anal cancer?

R48

Location Rose!

Anal/rectal cancer starts in the lining of the rectum (rectal mucosa). Rectal cancer is cancer that begins in the rectum. The rectum is the last several inches of the large intestine. It starts at the end of the final segment of your colon and ends when it reaches the short, narrow passage leading to the anus.

Colon cancer is a type of cancer that begins in the large intestine (colon). The colon is the final part of the digestive tract.

Long story short the former is at end of the line, while latter further up.

[quote] Let's hope that if she dies Janet Jackson doesn't bump her off the headlines by unexpectedly dying two hours later.

Janet couldn't bump Ruta Lee's death off the headlines.

[quote]Janet couldn't bump Ruta Lee's death off the headlines.

OK, then - LaToya.

My friend said he saw blood in his stool once, had it checked out and had cancer. They removed some of his intestine but he is ok now.

If caught in early states survival rates for colon cancer are rather good. Yes, this may involve removing portion of intestines (as like Tina Turner), but you'll still be living. OTOH if ignored and the cancer spreads then things can be quite different, the sad story of Chadwick Boseman is proof.

Many Americans either are squeamish or don't want to talk about things that involve their bowels. Even when many do notice something isn't right sad state of medicine in USA often means things that should be caught, aren't.

There was an article in Sunday New York Times magazine many years ago about cancer or maybe just medicine. One person profiled was a young new mother fighting for her life against colon cancer. The woman did everything right, she informed her doctor about blood in stools be he told her it was "nothing". She complained again to her obstetrician (after becoming pregnant) about pains in her abdomen, and again was put off. Finally when in hospital delivering her daughter again the woman asked nurses about what were now strange lumps in upper quadrant of her abdomen. The nurses also told her it was "nothing"....

Finally the poor woman got some sense and went to another physician who took complaints seriously and while it was already obvious to him (late stage colon cancer), did required testing and pronounced the grave results.

Rest of article was about how this young mother was coping with cancer (treatments, surgery, etc...) all with long odds she would live to see her daughter enter school. All this was totally avoidable if her first doctor had listened to his patient and run required tests/did exams. That another physician and then professional nurses dismissed what any medical or nursing student is taught are warning signs of colorectal cancer is equally disturbing. Often wished had kept that article or at least could recall name to see how that poor unfortunate woman fared with treatment.

Dustin Diamond was another who ignored pain and more to point when lumps began appearing on his body at first. People unless are bruises any lump on body should be seen by a physician. You should also know your own body; if there is pain and other signs things just aren't right, get another opinion.

Mr. Alan Bennett himself a colon cancer survivor wrote "A Woman of no Importance" which is about a self-absorbed woman so busy minding other people's business that doesn't realize she's ill with cancer. She further doesn't catch on after her doctor, a specialist, nurses and everyone else knows, she's dying of colon cancer.

'Can men get anal cancer from HPV through anal sex?'

YES

This is a graphic and powerful account of his partner's illness and death from anal cancer by a gay TV critic. Could not put it down but warning, it goes into ALLLLLLLLLLL the gross details.

I had colon cancer a few years ago. I had abdominal pain one day out of the blue that would not go away. It would hurt severely when I was sitting, hurt less when I was lying down and feel okay when I stood. I went to a couple of different doctors, as well as the ER where they gave me a CAT scan and told me definitively it was NOT cancer. My GP thought it was diverticulitis and gave me a particularly caustic antibiotic, then sent me to a hernia specialist who ordered an MRI and an ultrasound. One doctor said I had probably broken my pubic bone, which was impossible (and when I later looked it up found I would have had to been tackled in a pro NFL game for that to happen). I had pretty much stopped eating more than one meal per day because sitting hurt so much, and sitting after eating hurt even worse. And if I laid down after eating, I would get acid reflux. So I would eat a meal at work where I had taken to standing in my office all day.

After a month, the pain mysteriously went away, but then I was severely constipated. The hernia specialist, having reviewed the results of all the tests, pretty much threw up his hands and said- I don't know, call me in a month if you're still in pain. So that's four doctors, who had no idea and didn't bother to think outside their narrow scope.

When I realized my pain was gone but that it now felt like I was blocked from being able to go to the bathroom, I thought to myself- something shifted inside and I have some kind of a growth that's impeding my ability to go to the bathroom easily. I didn't think it was cancer, but some kind of a polyp or benign mass. But I know my body, and I knew there was something very wrong.

I called my gastro and told him about it and asked about getting a colonoscopy, even though I was too young. He examined me, told me to get a strong laxative in the meantime, and scheduled me for a colonoscopy a few weeks later. They didn't even need to do a biopsy (but of course they did) to know it was cancerous. The report they handed me when I left basically said malignancy. I was told to immediately begin looking for a surgeon. Terrifyingly, my gastro recommended the same hernia doctor who was such a useless asshole to me (not knowing I had been to him). I interviewed three surgeons and chose the head of the UCLA colorectal cancer dept. and had surgery two weeks later. I had Stage 3B colon cancer and needed to do chemo.

The ironic thing was a year prior I had finally gone shopping for a new GP because Obamacare had pretty much caused me to lose half my doctors the year before. The first guy I went to I really disliked and I knew I wasn't going to keep him. On the way out, he gave me a fecal matter testing kit because it was just something he did (I wasn't having any issues) and told me to do it, mail it in and schedule a follow up. I never did. I have no idea if the cancer was present at that point, and if so, would have registered enough in my fecal matter.

Yikes, R56! I’m so glad you made it through all that. What other symptoms did you have besides the one you mentioned?

Sometimes good things happen to bad people.

No other symptoms, R57. Just worsening pain over the space of a month, then the constipation. I was 100% fine prior to that, exercising, traveling a lot, working, etc. I get a physical every year.

Fight the good fight, sister!

And THAT'S what he really looks like R38.

R59, what was your diet like? Your stress levels? And what was it about the fecal test doc that rubbed you the wrong way?

Oh, the fecal test didn't rub me the wrong way at all. It was just a thing he asked me about as I was walking out the door and I had already made up my mind I wasn't coming back. He talked too much, and it was all about himself. And it had nothing to do with medical stuff. I can understand asking a patient lots of questions and trying to get to know a bit about their habits, especially upon the first visit, but I was in there for over two hours listening to his stories that had nothing to do with anything. It made him come off as not very serious or competent. I want a doctor, not a chat buddy.

In terms of diet and stress, I had had a particularly bad 18 months. I had worked very hard on a job and at the last minute, the rug got yanked from under my feet and I was treated particularly horribly by the woman in charge, who gaslighted me for months. It was so bad that I completely fell into this pit of anger and self-doubt that I could not climb out of. In fact, when I got the cancer diagnosis, I actually named my tumor after her, and I am fully convinced she caused it, that's how bad the stress was.

Yes, yes, R56/R59/R63. Many ill people who also happen to be irrational lunatics name their malignancies and blame them after the "devils" in their lives.

Perhaps an exorcist certified in electro-convulsive therapy can help the obvious problems that are left.

Good luck and thanks so much for sharing!

Brave lady