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...think he often gets people beyond the standard political pap, to where they live,” he says...
Deaths from cervical cancer have decreased dramatically in the past 60 years, thanks to early detection by the Pap smear, a screening test that women usually get every year. But a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that for women who are at low risk, the number of additional cancers caught by annual screening is vanishingly small, comparable to the number of men who get breast cancer. This gives statistical support to the advice of the American Cancer Society, which recommended last year that women who have three or more negative tests can be safely screened...
...actor playing Huck Finn is deaf. He uses sign language for all his dialogue--and his songs too--while another actor, perched at the edge of the stage, supplies his voice. His drunken Pap is actually two scraggly, bearded actors, one hearing and one deaf, who play off each other in clever ways (when one takes a swig from a jug of moonshine, the other wipes his mouth). The rest of the cast of Big River, a Broadway revival of the 1985 Tony-winning musical based on Mark Twain's novel, is a mix of deaf and hearing actors...
Most women who see a gynecologist have become accustomed to the annual Pap smear, the standard cervical-cancer screening tool. But, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS), the test produces nearly 3 million abnormal results a year--yet only 13,000 cases of cervical cancer occur yearly--leading to needless anxiety or invasive, potentially harmful procedures. So the ACS has revised its screening guidelines and now recommends fewer tests or none at all for certain women. Those over 30 who have had three normal Pap smears in a row can scale back to once every two or three years...
Eventually, however, as fewer women become infected with the major cancer-causing strains of HPV, doctors may be able to eliminate or greatly reduce the need for Pap smears. That doesn't mean women can rest easy. The reason: new tests will still be needed to keep tabs on other strains of HPV that might supplant HPV-16 and HPV-18. When it comes to cervical cancer, early detection still saves lives. --Reported by Janice M. Horowitz and Alice Park/New York