Poonam Pandey’s antics may have spread awareness but are a disservice to cancer patients
Aside from her creating misinformation that cervical cancer causes instant death, causing others to doubt someone’s affliction is the real damage.
On February 3, actor-model Poonam Pandey’s team released a statement that she had died of cervical cancer. Social media and television news channels went into a frenzy, mourning the 32-year-old’s life cut short while news websites published obituaries. On social media, people wrote testimonies and, in what triggered a moment of grief, others shared vulnerable personal incidents of losing family members or close ones to cervical or other kinds of cancer.
