What Doctors Don't Tell YouSubjecting women with mildly abnormal cervical smear test results to an immediate colposcopy examination is no more effective than simple observation (The Lancet, 10 July 1993).
Women whose cervical smears turn up mild abnormalities should not have invasive investigations, according to guidelines recently drawn up by a workshop in Oxford. ...
I have been trying to figure out how to fight a standard medical procedure, the examination of the genitals of children during routine physical examinations, barring any obvious medical problems. ...
Regular readers may be surprised to see us publish an article from Caroline Richmond, the once avowed scourge of many aspects of alternative medicine and co-founder of Quackbusters. But lately, s ...
If you’re a woman, your GP or gynaecologist undoubtedly press-gangs you into having a Pap smear test periodically to screen against cervical cancer.
In these tests, named after Dr George Papanicolaou, who developed it in 1941,
A major study involving over 12,000 women has shown that conservative treatment of CIN believed to be a precursor of cervical cancer can dramatically reduce the risk of full blown cancer occurring ...
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SCREENING: What takes 10,000 women up to 35 years to achieve?
Women on the contraceptive pill double the risk of developing cervical cancer, new research has discovered. The risk quadruples if a woman takes the Pill for more than 12 years. ...
A new test for cervical cancer, a supposed improvement over the pap smear tests now used, has shown a high rate of false positives. ...
