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...Dilatation and curettage, usually done under general anesthesia, has long been used within the first twelve weeks. The cervix, or opening of the uterus, is dilated with a series of progressively larger sounds-thin, blunt-ended metal rods. Then the uterus itself is scraped with a dull-edged curette, a small spoon-shaped instrument, until all embryonic matter has been removed. The entire procedure can take as little as 15 minutes. When it is done under local anesthesia, it sometimes produces painful cramping, but many women can return to their homes or jobs only hours after it has been performed...
Unlike the cervix, the vagina is rarely the site of cancer. In women under 50, vaginal cancer had been virtually unknown. Now at least a score of cases in teen-agers and women up to age 22 have been found in the U.S. The first seven, all detected since 1966, were reported a year ago by Drs. Arthur Herbst and Robert Scully of Boston's Vincent Memorial Hospital, the women's division of Massachusetts General. Another Boston doctor discovered an eighth case. The doctors then could not even hazard a guess to explain this sudden cluster of rarities...
...Washington County, Md., Comstock and his colleagues made an incidental but fascinating discovery. Regular churchgoing, and the clean living that often goes with it, appear to help people avoid a whole bagful of dire ailments and disasters. Among them: heart disease, cirrhosis of the liver, tuberculosis, cancer of the cervix, chronic bronchitis, fatal one-car accidents and suicides...
Unjustified Risk. Many doctors assume that circumcision prevents cancer of the penis. But Preston notes that penile tumors occur in circumcised as well as uncircumcised men. Nor does circumcision appear to be a major factor in preventing cancer of the cervix in women. Men of India's Parsi group are not circumcised; Jewish men are. Yet cervical cancer is rare among the wives of both groups. It is more frequent, however, in lower-class Moslem women, whose husbands, though circumcised, maintain low standards of personal hygiene...
...Council on Population Balance scoffs at the idea that a clinic needs the $250,000 worth of equipment recommended by proponents of a strict code. In fact, he believes that the commonly used standard equipment is wrong, since it requires a general anaesthetic for dilatation of the cervix and insertion of relatively large metal tools. Instead, Bergman uses only a local anaesthetic, and none at all in most cases, to permit insertion of a specially designed vacuum-suction tube only one-quarter inch in diameter. The instrument, smaller than those in general use, was developed at a Los Angeles abortion...