Ladies…you’re never too young for cancer. I read MyDeathSpace.com for morbid entertainment, and today I spotted China Stogner on there. She just died of cervical cancer - and she was 24 years old. I can’t believe that someone younger than me had to write her own obituary (or at least she seems to have written it). She was diagnosed less than a year ago, which means she left this world quickly. It also means that she probably didn’t hear that some forms of cervical cancer can be caused by HPV, which is a sexually-transmitted disease, until it was too late - that news has only come out recently.

So to all the young women who are reading this, myself included…get yourself an annual PAP smear. To everyone else, make sure the women in your life are getting annual screenings. It’s sad that someone just 24 years old had to die of cervical cancer…don’t let it be you next.

Added: sskipstress has additional information on HPV and cervical cancer here.