Marcia Cross anal cancer caused by the same disease as throat cancer in the husband

Marcia Cross was stunned to learn that the same virus that had caused her bad cancer had also caused cancer of her husband's throat eight years earlier.

A cancer of the anus was diagnosed in the Desperate Housewives star in 2017 after a routine gynecological examination revealed a cancerous mbad – something she now says that she saved her the life.

And she was stunned when doctors told her that the human papillomavirus – or HPV – that was causing throat cancer to her husband Tom Mahoney in 2009, had probably also caused her tumor to grow.

Addressing CBS this morning, actress Bree Van De Kamp revealed that she was forced to reconcile her professional and professional obligations with Tom, who underwent an exhausting treatment when their Savannah children and Eden were tiny.

"I would be like I was working all day, I would be in the ER at night, and I had two young children, so it was a busy time," she said. TV channel.

Eight years later, after putting Tom into remission, Marcia was diagnosed with her own cancer.

"I know that there are people who are ashamed, you have cancer, do you have to be ashamed, as if you did something wrong, you know, because that was the place to live?" In your anus, I mean, come on, really, there's enough on your plate, "she continued.

"Even for me, it took time [to talk about it]. Anus, anus, anus. You just have to get used to it. "

The American actress has undergone six weeks of radiation therapy, then a dozen chemotherapies to submit her cancer to submission, and she says she could not have gotten out without her buddies .

"What I had was a bunch of girlfriends … I called them my" bad angels, "" she joked.

"You know, I did not stop saying," If it does not kill me, it's like the best thing that could have happened. " Because the experience of being loved like that … has dazzled me.

Marcia is now campaigning to raise public awareness of HPV vaccination, which her two daughters say will take place at the end of their current school year.

HPV is a badually transmitted disease that most people contract in life. Most strains have no symptoms, but some can cause bad warts or even cancer of the bads, anus, cervix and throat.