Word: smear
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Yale was led by Maria Smear, a 5'11 freshman guard, in the first meeting between the traditional rivals. Smear scored 18 points on 7-of-12 shooting...
Yale's season also has been highlighted by the performance of a freshman. Guard Maria Smear has led the team in scoring since limited playing time early in the season. Her 20 points against the Crimson last Friday marks her best effort of the season to date...
...stage, according to two studies published in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association. So far, so good. Unfortunately, the test's false-positive rate--how often it indicated that there was a problem when none existed--was almost twice as high as that for the Pap smear. In these cases, a biopsy of the woman's cervix showed no sign of disease...
...that's the crux of the problem. How many women should undergo what is, when it comes right down to it, unnecessary treatment to find a few more cases of cervical cancer? Shouldn't health officials focus instead on making sure that more women undergo regular Pap-smear examinations? After all, Pap smears, though far from perfect, have helped dramatically lower the death toll from cervical cancer--taking it from the No. 1 cause of death due to cancer in American women to the 10th...
...present, the HPV test is approved in the U.S. only to help resolve ambiguous results from a Pap-smear test. Many gynecologists believe that HPV will eventually replace the Pap. But they're not willing to abandon it without a lot more detailed information--and neither should...