What Doctors Don't Tell YouReader's Corner
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. ...
The Ayre's spatula, which is widely used in the collection of samples for Pap smears, is the least effective of the major devices used for Pap smear collection, according to a review of 39 smear t ...
US health authorities are spending too much time and money scheduling Pap smears for women who have had a hysterectomy. ...
Smoking and alcohol may be major causes of the skin complaint psoriasis. Smoking seems more likely to trigger it in women, whereas alcohol is more likely to be the cause in men. ...
Regular screening of women at low risk of developing cervical cancer is a waste of money and resources, researchers believe.
Women have had another salutary reminder that, despite what doctors and the government like to pretend, the cervical smear test is a far from foolproof marker for cancer (see WDDTY, Vol 1 No 3). ...
The belief that a virus that causes genital warts is also the cause of cervical cancer has been discounted following a study of 200 women. ...
