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Kamis, 06 Juni 2019

Marcia Cross says her anal cancer is linked to HPV and husband's throat cancer - CNN

The "Desperate Housewives" star appeared on Wednesday's episode of "CBS This Morning" to discuss her diagnosis more than a year ago.

Cross, 57, said it came about as a result of a routine digital rectum exam during a visit to her gynecologist.

Marcia Cross shares cancer battle

"I was so not thinking anything was wrong because I didn't have any symptoms, and she gave me an exam and came around and said, 'Well, I just want you to know, whatever it is it's curable,'" Cross said. "It was like 'What? What are you talking about?'"

Cross is talking about her cancer battle to help destigmatize the disease.

"I know that there are people who are ashamed," she said. "You have cancer. Should you then also feel like ashamed like you did something bad because it took up residence in your anus?"

Her husband, actor Tom Mahoney, was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2009.

Doctors now suspect that Cross' cancer and Mahoney's came from the same type of human papillomavirus, known as HPV.

HPV can be transferred through sexual intercourse or skin-to-skin contact and can also cause cancer of the cervix and genitals.

Early immunization can prevent the types of HPV that most commonly cause cancer and Cross said she plans to get their 12-year-old twin daughters vaccinated.

"My girls don't know it, but they're up for their first shot the end of the school year," Cross said.

Cross has completed radiation and chemotherapy and both she and her husband are in remission.

Correction: An earlier version of this story misspelled Marcia Cross' first name.

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2019-06-06 12:35:00Z
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Random: In Netflix's Black Mirror, Switch-Style Game Cards Are All The Rage - Nintendo Life

Striking Vipers is the name of one of the three new episodes from season five of Netflix's Black Mirror and, as usual, it is just as bleak as ever about how technology might impact our lives in the near-future.

With a stellar cast featuring Anthony Mackie (Falcon from the MCU) and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Black Manta in Aquaman, providing some Marvel versus DC excitement), the episode tells quite an engaging story involving a Street Fighter-style video game called Striking Vipers, which just got upgraded with a VR mode if played with the fancy TCKR System, which you plop onto the side of your head.

What grabbed our attention, though, was the box Striking Vipers came in – it's not entirely unlike a Switch game case, and contains a similarly diminutive cartridge (which, it should be said, looks like a hybrid between a Switch game card and a Vita one):

Mackie doesn't lick the cart, so we can't confirm if it has the same bitter coating as Switch game cards, and there's no bulky Labo VR headset needed, either. Instead, the game card slots into the controller on this console, so it seems Google's Stadia didn't take off in this alternate reality. With Google announcing launch plans for its streaming enterprise later today, we wonder if it'll do better in our own timeline.

Tetsuya Mizuguchi's psychedelic Tetris Effect also features in the episode, a game which has unfortunately yet to arrive on Switch, although we've got our fingers crossed it'll appear at some point. We're all about Tetris 99, of course, but that's hardly a game you can zone out to with a tasty beverage after a hard day at the office.

Let us know if you've seen the episode yet (and what you thought) with a comment below.

Thanks to Henmii for the spot!

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2019-06-06 12:00:00Z
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Marcia Cross says her anal cancer is linked to husband's throat cancer - CNN