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Every year, no less than 16,000 U.S. women, most of them comparatively young, die of cancer of the cervix. Doctors have long known that the key to controlling cancer is prompt diagnosis, and they have convinced a large section of the public that if a woman has any suspicious symptoms she should go at once to her doctor for examination. But that is not enough, the A.M.A. Journal warned last week: if the needlessly early deaths from cervical cancers are to be avoided, women who have no apparent symptoms of the disease must also take a cancer test...
Gold to Ease Pain. Ranking third among the isotopes used in the treatment of patients is radioactive gold. In a few U.S. medical centers, the gold is injected directly into the tumor mass in certain cases of cancer of the cervix or of the prostate gland. This work is still in its infancy; in the standard medical summary, "the results are encouraging but inconclusive." Far more widespread is the use of radiogold, with no thought of cure but _ simply to ease the pain and inconvenience of excess fluid formation in cancers of the chest or abdominal cavity...
Medical-school students are taught that a woman is ready to give birth when the cervix has dilated to ten centimeters, and should be moved to the delivery room when dilation has reached nine centimeters. Some shiny new interns at Lying-in, depending on this rule-of-thumb, have had arguments with Nurse Carmon over the proper time to move a mother. In every case that Lying-in can remember, Carmon was right. Said one chastened doctor: "If my patient had dilated to only two centimeters and Carmon said she ought to go to delivery, I'd take...
Sperm Meets Egg. One important contributing factor in sterility. Dr. Hamblen claims, is the fact that few people understand even the mechanics of conception. Spermatozoa (self-propelled male germs), when deposited in the female cervix (neck of the uterus), swim into the uterine cavity, then up through the pencil-sized fallopian tubes...
Next to closed tubes, the most common cause of infertility is infection of the cervix. This can usually be cleared up by good medical care. Sometimes doses of thyroid extract are needed to stimulate the ovaries. Treatment with ovarian hormones (estrogen and progestin), says the doctor, plays "no significant part in the treatment of sterility." Of course, if both ovaries have been mutilated or removed, a woman is permanently barren...