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Reverend Jesse L. Jackson once claimed that he held the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.'s head as he was dying, and that the blood from King's wounded body made a dark smear on his clothing...
...Greek-American physician George Papanicolaou develops the Pap smear, a screening test for cervical and uterine cancer...
What, you mean we have to actually learn something? Yes, the Harvard classes that adeptly teach us to speak so expertly on that which we know nothing about will not help us here. So while the rest of you smear on the suntan lotion, think of us, your future doctors, sacrificing our spring vacations to desperately remember the orgo we never learned. But if all else fails, just remember to choose answer...
Still, an ounce of prevention--or at least early detection--is worth a gallon of cancer-fighting drugs. Ever since the introduction in the 1950s of the Pap-smear test, which allows doctors to detect changes in the cervix before the tissue becomes malignant, both the incidence of cervical cancer and its death rate have plummeted in industrialized countries. (One out of two American women who develop invasive cervical cancer have not had a Pap test in the preceding five years.) Unfortunately, cervical cancer is more common in poorer parts of the world, and among underinsured and uninsured Americans...
...reduce the risk of cervical cancer, all women should get a Pap smear annually, starting at 18 or whenever they first have sex. (More than 90% of cervical cancers are caused by a common virus that is sexually transmitted, although only a fraction of infected women develop the malignancy.) If you have normal tests three years in a row, you may, at your doctor's discretion, begin having them less frequently. But don't be fooled into thinking you no longer need a Pap smear after menopause. As long as you have a cervix, you need to get tested...