I love her writing, but no question that she was a damaged person. I wonder why she was so driven to take so many lovers, and how much more she could have written if she hadn't contracted cancer. Who knows, maybe if they'd all used condoms, she'd have written richer stories? Don't know whether to put this Q. in Arts or Medicine tho'. Assuming that doctors will be equally cultured & less offended by the speculation, I guess.
2006-08-31 13:41:15 · 9 answers · asked by WomanWhoReads 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Well, OK, if it was genetic, which of her family members had cancer then?
2006-08-31 14:03:32 · update #1
Well, 95% of cervical cancer is sexually transmitted via HPV. That much is established. If the male who gave this to her (as vs her female consorts) then likely he also gave it to others.
Females are not likely to transmit it to females as the cervices never come into continuted contact (unless there is some bizarre position I can't imagine).
In the days before HPV had even been identified, it was well noted and documented that if a man's wife died of cervical cancer and he remarried, the next wife would also get it.
One would have to do rather extensive research into the subsequent health problems of the females involved in the lives of the males she was exposed to to glean this obscure bit of information.
2006-09-01 10:15:09 · answer #1 · answered by finaldx 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It could have been no one. If it has been determined that she definitely had the gene, then perhaps one of the women relatives, mother, grandmother, aunt, etc. I had cancer and no one in my family ever had it, and no one has since. It has to do with the cells and how they go wild, it just happens. It is important to find it early, like mine, 18 yrs ago, and cancer free now. So many different types of cancer as well, some are very aggressive and others are not. You cannot catch cancer from anyone.
2006-09-05 03:35:28 · answer #2 · answered by shardf 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The sole responder Tonalc has discounted the possibility of Anais Nin catching cervical cancer by her promiscuousness stating that cancer is not contagious. However,read the following:
Genital HPV infection is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) that is caused by human papillomavirus (HPV). Human papillomavirus is the name of a group of viruses that includes more than 100 different strains or types. More than 30 of these viruses are sexually transmitted, and they can infect the genital area of men and women including the skin of the penis, vulva (area outside the vagina), or anus, and the linings of the vagina, cervix, or rectum. Most people who become infected with HPV will not have any symptoms and will clear the infection on their own.
Some of these viruses(HPV human papplovirus) are called "high-risk" types may lead to cancer of the cervix, vulva, vagina, anus, or penis. Others are called "low-risk" types, and they may cause mild Pap test abnormalities or genital warts. Genital warts are single or multiple growths or bumps that appear in the genital area, and sometimes are cauliflower shaped.
It is therefore not unlikely that the cervical cancer which cut short the career of the authoress may be the outcome of her loose morals.As to from which specific lover she got this disease is difficult to say since she had many friends and she was equally liberal with almost everybody. It would always remain under wraps up.
2006-08-31 21:09:25 · answer #3 · answered by Prabhakar G 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Cancer is a genetic defect, which cannot be contracted with any exchanges of fluid with another person. Cancer is not an STD. Her development of cancer is more likely to have to do with the way she lived, her exposure to cancer causing agents like asbestos, or whether cancer was passed in her genes.
2006-08-31 20:49:18 · answer #4 · answered by jdrisch 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Ummm, you can't catch cancer. There is a theory that HPV which can be sexually transmitted *may* cause certain types of cervical cancer, but it hasn't been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. Hell, they're not even sure which HPV strains cause genital warts.
Last stats I read said roughly 80% of sexually active adults have some HPV strain, so it's a crap shoot.
2006-08-31 20:48:47 · answer #5 · answered by DJ 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You can't always "catch" cerivical cancer! (unless she had HPV human papaloma virus). There can be a history of cancer in the family and she could have gotten it that way.
2006-08-31 20:48:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
too bad she wasnt alive and young enough to get the HPV vaccine
2006-08-31 21:56:05 · answer #7 · answered by tconlgirl 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You can't catch cancer.
2006-08-31 20:44:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Cancer is not a contagious disease.
2006-08-31 20:47:25 · answer #9 · answered by sylvia 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋