#152: Cancer Doesn't Care If You're A Bad**s - Team Maureen Board Members Daniel Linskey, Kelly Welch, and Dr. Emily Penick

The health of our military service members and our Veterans is always a top line issue. Many suffer from illness and injury as a result of their service; and most are believed to be at higher risk for chronic sickness. Some of which is fortunately preventable.
Cancer is a top concern for much of the military community. To dig into the increased risk cancer poses to our Veterans, Fran Racioppi (linkedin.com/in/francisracioppijr)sat down with Team Maureen (teammaureen.org); an organization focused on bringing attention and prevention of HPV and HPV-related cancers to our Veterans.

Daniel Linskey, (linkedin.com/in/danlinskey) Kelly Welch (linkedin.com/in/kelly-welch-1077812ab) and Dr. Emily Penick (linkedin.com/in/emily-penick-392400211) lead Team Maureen (teammaureen.org)and founded the organization after the loss of their family and friend Maureen Russo.

Worldwide, a woman dies of cervical cancer every two minutes. It is the second-most frequent cancer in the world. The military community is twice as likely to develop HPV, yet immunization rates among our servicemembers are 50% of the civilian community. 90% of HPV-related cancers are preventable through immunization.

We broke down the facts of HPV, why it’s rising exponentially in our military, how it’s affecting both our women and men service-members, and what every single person, military and civilian, can do to prevent one of the deadliest, and preventable, cancers in society today.

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HIGHLIGHTS
• 0:00 Introduction
• 1:50 Welcome to the South Shore
• 4:44 What is Cervical Cancer?
• 8:09 How do you get Cervical Cancer?
• 9:49 What is the effect on men?
• 11:38 Screening for HPV
• 12:55 Oral Health importance
• 14:23 Low vaccination rates
• 17:40 Why are military at risk?
• 19:58 Vaccination process
• 24:57 Who was Maureen?
• 29:17 How are you educating people?
• 33:20 How do you get involved?

QUOTES
• “Making sure that people know about the importance of prevention of HPV and early detection for cervical cancer is our mission.”
• “Nobody should die of cervical cancer. It’s completely preventable.”
• “Why not be at the forefront of HPV prevention?”
• “This is something that can help your kids not get cancer.”
• “Active duty military and Veterans are 2x as likely as civilians to develop cancers associated with HPV.”
• “We should be able to get to that point where no one loses a loved one to cervical cancer.”
• “You think you’re a badass. Cancer doesn’t care if you’re a badass.”

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