Word: cervix
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Studies have long linked smoking and cancer of the cervix, which is expected to kill at least 6,000 women in the U.S. this year. Now a new study has not only confirmed the link but also concluded that women who breathe smoke from others' cigarettes -- so-called passive smoke -- are equally at risk for cervical cancer...
Then Claire Niveau (Genevieve Bujold) comes to the Mantle fertility clinic. She is a famous actress with a healthy sexual appetite, a trifurcate cervix and the desperate yen to bear a child. Desire stirs Bev's instincts; propriety tries to tamp them down. It is a dangerous move to admit someone besides Ellie into his secret life. Love for an outsider will distort the twins' delicate imbalance. They had been complementary halves of one identity: body and mind, | curiosity and compassion, sex and guilt, Don Juan and Don Knotts. Now the seesaw must tip from sanity to psychosis...
...have taught the method to 64,000 women in the Indian state of West Bengal. Teachers use everyday agricultural images to explain a woman's menstrual cycle: seeds are planted during the monsoon, when the soil is soft and moist; cows are inseminated when they produce mucus at the cervix, fertility's telltale sign. Some women who cannot afford pencil or paper dutifully chart their fertile days in simple symbols drawn with burned wood. In Brazil, Sister Cecilia heads an agency that runs 18 N.F.P. centers; she argues that in countries where poverty and illiteracy prevail, N.F.P. is an ideal...
Like the diaphragm, the cap is a barrier contraceptive that blocks sperm from passing from the vagina into the uterus. A thimble-shaped device made from rubber or plastic and measuring about 1 1/2 in. in diameter, it fits snugly over the cervix, or neck of the uterus, and is held in place by suction. The diaphragm is bigger and more fragile. A thin rubber dome averaging about 3 in. wide, with a flexible rim, it is placed between the pubic bone and the vaginal wall and kept in place by tension. Both contraceptives are used with spermicide...
...cases in young girls are especially worrisome. Some researchers suspect that because a teenager's cervix has more developing cells than an adult's, it is more vulnerable to HPV. At Children's Hospital in Boston about six teenagers a year must undergo surgery for cervical cancer, which in the past was extremely rare in the young...