What Doctors Don't Tell YouA decided lack of standards in the cervical cancer screening programme is responsible for many false diagnoses of cancer, announced the National Audit Office. ...
Women whose cervical smears turn up mild abnormalities should not have invasive investigations, according to guidelines recently drawn up by a workshop in Oxford. ...
Cervical cancer is invariably caused by the HPV (human papillomavirus) infection. Globally around 470,000 new cases are reported every year, and the disease annually kills around 230,000 women, many of whom are from developing countries. And so when...
Your daily newspaper may well have reported on the latest medical breakthrough - a vaccine that fights a virus that can cause cervical cancer. Wonderful if true, of course, but we would have long since retired if we’d been given £5 for every medical...
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