Word: cervix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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High-Risk Groups. About one-fourth of all uterine cancers invade the body of the womb, usually in older women. The form that attacks the cervix (neck) of the womb may develop in women at any age from the late teens on. Because of both its greater frequency and its threat to women in their childbearing years, this type has received intensive study. The American Cancer Society's Epidemiologist E. Cuyler Hammond lists several social as well as medical factors that go with high cervical cancer rates...
...greatest controversy today concerns cancer of the cervix. Again the trouble is insufficient data. What is indisputable is that many, if not most, women on the Pill undergo cellular changes in the cervical region. The question is whether these are precancerous. Two researchers, Drs. Milliard Dubrow and Myron R. Melamed, conducted a three-year study of almost 35,000 women at Manhattan Planned Parenthood clinics. Their report has not been published, and may never be, because technical reviews of the study suggest that it was badly designed. But bits and pieces of the findings have been carefully leaked...
Cancer of the cervix is one of the commonest forms of malignant disease. It is also one of the most certainly cur able, provided it is detected early. Thanks to the famed "Pap smear" test for early detection, developed by Cornell University's late Dr. George N. Papanicolaou, the lives of an estimated 15,000 women are now being saved each year in the U.S. But gynecologists believe that almost as many women who develop cervical cancer each year will eventually die of it, and needlessly - because it is not being detected soon enough...
...motherhood. He cites the case of a woman in her early 20s, soon to be married. The Pap smear taken at a premarital examination discloses some suspicious cells. Since their source is not precisely pinpointed, standard practice would demand removal of sizable cone-shaped sections of tissue from the cervix and perhaps its entire lip, with the danger of forming scar tissue that could close off the uterus and leave the woman infertile...
...Lethal Vagina. A major controversy in female physiology has concerned the source of the all-important vaginal lubricant. Some authorities have traced it to the uterine cervix; others, to the Bartholin glands flanking the vagina. In fact, says Dr. Masters, the normal cervix secretes nothing of any importance; the Bartholin glands secrete only a minute quantity of lubricant. According to Dr. Masters, the vaginal walls themselves supply nearly all the vaginal lubricant. How they do so is unclear, since there are no glands in the vaginal walls, and this is a subject of continuing study...