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First championed by women's groups in the early 1970s, when abortion was $ illegal in most states, menstrual extraction is a variation of the vacuum aspirations used in medical clinics. A thin plastic tube is first inserted through the cervix into the uterus. Then the uterine lining, along with an embedded fertilized egg, is suctioned out by pumping a syringe attached to the tubing. Proponents of the procedure insist that it is safe...
...lead to medical complications. "There's no way that watching a video and seeing someone demonstrate this is going to make self-help procedures safe," declares gynecologist Michael Burnhill of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, N.J. Possible dangers: missing the tiny fertilized egg, lacerating the cervix, perforating the uterus, and spreading bacterial infection...
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...
...effects of smoking on women with cervical cancer, was published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association by a team of researchers at the University of Utah Medical School. It found that women who smoke are about three times as likely to develop cancer of the cervix as nonsmokers. But the study, which also sought to assess the damage done by exposure to passive smoke, produced a surprise: women who inhaled passive smoke for three or more hours a day were not only more likely to have cervical cancer than those who did not but were...
...human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes genital warts, as the probable culprit. The University of Utah researchers, however, could only speculate about a possible mechanism by which smoking may cause cervical cancer. Harmful components of cigarette smoke, they suggest, may travel through the blood into the tissues of the cervix and somehow activate the virus...