Marcia Cross believes that a routine medical check saved her life – 08-Jun-2019

Speaking on "CBS This Morning," she said, "I did not think anything was wrong because I had no symptoms.

"She did me an exam and came out saying," Well, I just want you to know anything, it's curable. "It was like:" What ?! What are you talking about?" "

Doctors suspect that Marcia and her husband Tom Mahoney's cancer in 2009 are linked to the same type of human papillomavirus (HPV), which can be transmitted through badual intercourse or skin-to-skin contact. remission – plan to vaccinate their twins Eden and Savannah, 12 years old, against HPV very soon.

Marcia said, "My daughters do not know it, but they are ready for their first shot at the end of the school year."

The former star of "Desperate Housewives" hopes to end the discomfort caused by bad cancer and does not want sufferers to feel "ashamed" of the disease.

She said, "I know there are people who are ashamed, you have cancer, then you have to be ashamed, and you did something wrong, you know, because it elected home in your anus?

"I mean, come on, really, there's enough on your plate.

"Even for me, it took a while … Anus, anus, anus! You just have to get used to it."