What is JANE doing to get the word out about cervical cancer?
Once the original story, “I Hate Tumors,” came out in our March 2006 issue, it seemed like everywhere you turned, people were talking about HPV and cervical cancer. Readers had an overwhelmingly positiveand emotionalreaction to the story, with some women writing in saying the article saved their lives because it prompted them to go to the doctor, where they found out they had precancerous lesions on their cervix. We wanted to talk about all of this in the magazine, so I wrote a follow-up story, “I Still Hate Tumors,” which is in our March 2007 issue. More than that, though, JANE is making a real commitment to the cause of preventing cervical cancerwere planning a big awareness event in the fall as well as doing outreach on college campuses. Its pretty exciting.
