Category Archives: PAP TestFrom: Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans Health, United States, 2005 Pap Smear A Pap smear is a microscopic examination of cells scraped from the cervix that is used to detect cancerous or precancerous conditions of the cervix and other medical conditions. If detected, precancerous conditions can be treated before they become malignant. [...]
Researchers and public health officials are FINALLY waking up, and stepping up, to ask tough questions about the cost effectiveness of administering a very expensive, and not thoroughly vetted vaccine to every girl and young woman in the free world. Is the use of Gardasil® as a preventive measure against cervical cancer, the correct utilization [...]
More Reports of Coincidental Collateral Damage Reported by Barbara Loe Fisher The reports of HPV vaccine reactions, injuries and deaths continue to roll in, not only to NVIC but also to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (Search HPV4 at: http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/index.html) newspapers, and television stations. And the only response that comes from officials at [...]
Girls and Young Women Pay the Price for Corporate Greed and the FDA’s Failure to Protect Reported by Barbara Loe Fisher The vaccine reaction reports keep coming into the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) from mothers describing how they took their healthy teenage girls into a pediatrician or gynecologist’s office where they were given a [...]
The Secret History of the War on Cancer By Devra Davis, PhD, MPH Review by Leslie Botha, Holy Hormones Honey! In a recent interview on CSPAN Davis stated, “For much of its history, the cancer war has been fighting the wrong battles, with the wrong weapons, against the wrong enemies.” The Secret History of the [...]
Global Research Sources—Asking Questions Ignored by FDA An analysis of case-control studies has found that use of oral contraceptives for ≥ 5 years in women with human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is associated with an increased risk of cervical cancer. This confirms existing knowledge and emphasises the need for regular cervical screening of all women aged [...]
Testing for HPV Testing for human papillomavirus (HPV) may be a useful first step for cervical cancer screening in women younger than 35 years, preliminary findings indicate. Testing for HPV is better than standard cell testing at picking up pre-cancerous changes, but it is also more likely to yield false results. This is particularly true [...]
How Cervical Cancer Is Detected Pap Smear A Pap smear is a microscopic examination of cells scraped from the cervix that is used to detect cancerous or precancerous conditions of the cervix and other medical conditions. If detected, precancerous conditions can be treated before they become malignant. Between 1975 and 2001 use of the Pap [...]
What is human papillomavirus (HPV)? Human papillomavirus (pronounced pap-ih-lo-ma-vye-rus) is also called HPV. It is a virus that includes more than 100 types, over 30 of which are sexually transmitted. The types of HPV that infect the genital area are known as genital HPV. Most sexually active people will have HPV at some point in [...]
What is cervical cancer? Cancer is a disease in which certain body cells don’t function right, divide very fast, and produce too much tissue that forms a tumor. Cervical cancer is cancer in the cervix, the lower, narrow part of the uterus (womb). The uterus is the hollow, pear-shaped organ where a baby grows during [...]
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