She did start with conventional treatments, but at some point, I think right after an almost immediate and more involved recurrence that soon included her liver, chose to go to a clinic in Germany for treatments that involved a derivative of mistletoe plants. These of course couldn't be done in the US as they fall into that netherlands category of alternative treatment without FDA, or peer reviewed clinical trials. I'm unsure if at that point her docs here had told her that there was no more that they could do, and this was a hail Mary pass/attempt to stem things, or if she really believed this was a better choice to make even though there were still conventional treatments that might have helped.

I am surprised that a couple of newscasters are being chastised by people who clearly don't know what's what, for saying that she died from a cancer that was caused by a common STD. In truth that is what happened, the oncogenic versions of HPV are all sexually transmitted, and HPV which is responsible for the vast majority of anal cancers is the most common STD in the US today. I guess some people think that this statement (factual or not) was not politically correct right after her death and her family and friends were mourning her.