What Doctors Don't Tell YouA new test for cervical cancer, a supposed improvement over the pap smear tests now used, has shown a high rate of false positives. ...
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). ...
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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