Ladies of Saidit: what do you want in a forum?

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[–]TheOnyxGoddess 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

I love how you didn't use "cancer". I hate it when people do that when creating an analogy about a problem which has a human to human contact transmission mechanism. You have my respect.

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Cervical cancer sort of has the transmission aspect, more secondarily but I get what you mean. Thank you though /bow

[–]TheOnyxGoddess 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Cervical cancer. HPV causes nearly all cervical cancers. About 70% of HPV-related cervical cancer is caused by HPV-16 or HPV-18. However, most genital HPV infections will not cause cancer. Smoking can also raise the risk of cervical cancer in women with HPV.

MOST cervical cancer is caused by HPV, but MOST HPV infections, DO NOT lead to cervical cancer (that is, just because you have HPV, it doesn't mean cervical cancer WILL develop). Cervical cancer itself is not transmissible.

https://www.cancer.net/navigating-cancer-care/prevention-and-healthy-living/hpv-and-cancer

Now compare it to Devil Facial Disease which is affecting the Tasmanian Devil Population:

The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii), so named for its blood-curdling, nocturnal shrieks and snarls, is the largest of the carnivorous marsupials. Although once widely persecuted, concerted efforts are now being made to save the devil from extinction following the emergence of a fatal transmissible malignancy known as devil facial tumour disease (DFTD). DFTD is unusual in that the infectious agent is the cancer cell itself.

This is a cancer which actually spreads.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7121369/

Edit: Wording

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Small nodules rapidly progress to become large, multicentric masses with ulcerating, exudative surfaces

Exudative. Bleh, the visuals alone that word brings are nasty. This is simple of me, but it's depressing to see them in such a pitiful state. They remind me of oversized mouse-cats with an extra chromosome tossed in, and they're precious.