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...blood vessels were surprised to find the same damage whether the subjects smoked a pack a week or a pack a day. Meanwhile, the most comprehensive review to date of the effects of smoking firmly links it to a broad range of malignancies, including cancers of the stomach, liver, cervix and kidney...
...THEY DO IT A woman's eggs are extracted and mixed with her partner's sperm in a Petri dish. The resulting embryo is transferred to her uterus through the cervix...
...Other screening options such as [DNA] testing for human papillomavirus (HPV), which is the virus that causes cervical cancer, or simple visual screening methods called Direct Visual Inspection (DVI) of the cervix followed by immediate treatment, could save up to one third of these women if used just once in each woman’s lifetime around the age of thirty-five,” Goldie says...
...more types of malignancies. Norwegian scientists report the best evidence yet that HPV-16, a strain of the virus, doubles the risk of larynx, pharynx and tonsil cancers. The explanation is not so farfetched: HPV-16 can transform normal cells in the mucous membranes--like those lining both the cervix and oral cavity--into cancerous squamous cells. How does HPV get to the mouth in the first place? The most likely pathway is oral...
...Women whose Pap smears aren't quite normal, but not abnormal either, are usually advised to do one of two things: get a follow-up Pap in six months or undergo an expensive procedure called a colposcopy, in which the cervix is closely examined and usually biopsied. Now researchers report on a third alternative. In a major study, they found that testing for the human papilloma virus in women with equivocal Paps quickly and accurately identifies which women are most likely to have precancerous or cancerous lesions upon biopsy, sparing half of them the need to undergo...