Famous Singer, 56, Takes Off For Dream Honeymoon With Her New Wife, 43, After ‘Frightening’ Throat Cancer Scare

Since Sam’s surgery was hanging over her head, now she can really let the “I Do’s” sink in now that she knows she’s okay.

“I really cried a lot. I’m such a positive person but it’s hard when you’ve got something like that hanging over you. I was very fearful,” Sam told The Sun.

We can’t blame her. A cancer scare can sometimes be worse than the actual diagnosis, as the “not knowing” can be unbearable stress to handle. Understandably, Sam is extra sensitive about cancer since she tragically lost her fiancée Myra Stratton to the disease in 2015, after 16 years together.

Needless to say, her health situation hit “very close to home.”

“For everybody, it certainly puts life into perspective and when you go through something like that, you certainly grow up and you see life for what it really is,” she said.

Sam and Linda, who also serves as her tour manager, have been together since 2016 and were engaged for two years prior to their nuptials, held in Epping Forest, Essex.

Now that they are finished with wedding planning on top of a cancer scare, they can relax a bit.

The newlyweds were spotted “locking lips” before jetting off from London’s Gatwick airport, dressed similarly in comfortable, casual attire. Sam wore pink sweats and both ladies had pink sweatshirts tied around their shoulders.

We hope they enjoy this much-deserved chill time and have a lifetime of happiness.

HPV and Throat Cancer

Even though Sam’s tumor was luckily not cancerous, it's important to learn about HPV's involvement with causing throat cancer and other head and neck cancers, along with cervical and anal cancer.

HPV, or human papillomavirus, is a highly common sexually transmitted virus that affects both men and women.

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"The vast majority of humans in the U.S., both men and women, will eventually get infected with human papillomavirus," says Dr. Allen Ho, a head and neck surgeon at Cedars-Sinai. "The important thing to know about HPV is that there are many different strains, and only a couple of them tend to be more cancer-inducing. Probably less than 1% of the population who get infected happen to have the cancer-causing virus that somehow their immune system fails to clear, and over 15 to 20 years [it] develops from a viral infection into a tumor, and a cancer.

HPV and Cancer Risk The Basics

The HPV vaccine, which was recently approved in the U.S. for people up to age 45, though it's recommended that children get it before they become sexually active, can prevent a lot of these cancers.

Gardasil 9 protects against nine strains of HPV including the strains most likely to cause cancer and genital warts. But it can't provide protection if a person has already been exposed to HPV. That's why doctors recommend it for children as young as 9.

'People Need to Know That HPV Can Cause These Cancers'

Unfortunately, there wasn't any knowledge about the connection with HPV and cancer until recent years, so later generations were unable to protect themselves with a vaccine. HPV was discovered and identified in the early '80s, and the first HPV vaccine wasn't available until 2016.

The good news is, most lumps in the throat are benign, or non-cancerousas in Sam’s situationbut anything concerning is always worth getting checked out right away.

 

 

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