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CLEARING UP A BAD SMEAR What should a college-age woman do if her Pap smear is abnormal? Maybe nothing. A bad Pap is often caused by infection with the human papillomavirus. But in many young women the infection disappears on its own--and along with it, the abnormal cervical cells...
...devour Di in her pink-flowered swimsuit in the Mediterranean with Dodi in shades and shorts on his father's yacht, would there have been a phalanx of photographers in a high-speed chase to capture yet another glimpse of the couple? There's an audience for celebrity pap, and when the mainstream press doesn't pander to it directly, it does so indirectly by tabloid laundering: writing about how crazy it is that the tabloids spend so much time covering a royal romance, and then running pictures of the tabs' pictures to say how invasive they...
...puts patients at risk," she explains. "But I think it's O.K. to use surgery to feel better about yourself." Nonetheless, she is close to her parents, who emigrated from Iran before she was born and settled in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. She plans to help her father market a Pap-smear test he invented...
...Women who've had a hysterectomy may be able to forgo annual PAP SMEARS. The test detects cervical cancer but is also used to identify cancerous vaginal cells in women who have had their uterus--and cervix--removed. Now research finds that vaginal cancer is too rare to warrant routine testing...
Cancer awareness has paid off as well. Patients are much more conscious today of cancer's early warning signs--and more likely to go in for regular Pap smears and prostate exams. Those tests, meanwhile, have become exquisitely sensitive. Breast cancers, for example, can now be spotted when they are only 2 cm in size, compared with 3 cm a few years ago. "The smaller the cancer," says Harmon Eyre, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, "the better the chances of survival...