Worcester, Sharon
Understanding Cancer and Beyond – Continuing Medical Education (CME) Empowerment Series aims to provide effective platforms for medical professionals to acquire, share and exchange knowledge & clinical experience. In addition to knowledge sharing, a bigger objective is to forge working relationships, ...
CASPubMedGoogle Scholar Dasgupta S (2023) The efficiency of cervical pap and comparison of conventional pap smear and liquid-based cytology: a review. Cureus,15(11) Hirsch, B. E., McGowan, J. P., Fine, S. M., Vail, R., Merrick, S. T., Radix, A., …Gonzalez, C. J. (2020)...
Sometimes you don't get a chance to do a check-up. I didn't even know what a pap-smear is before…But then I found out. That helped me because they found something wrong with me. (Thabisile, IDI, South Africa). In South Africa and Uganda predominantly, healthcare was commonly ...
There were a series of questions relative to preventive measures to which participants answered either "Yes" or "No" ("In the past year have you had a…" flu shot, mammogram, pap smear, screen for colon cancer, dental visit, vision check, screen for prostate canc...
For no discernible reason other than feeling a bit bleurgh, I became fixated on a lady garden tidy-up and leg wax. There was no immediate call to swim with dolphins or model lingerie, and my next pap smear was at least a year away, but the hankering for depilation persisted. ...
Apregnancythat has gone smoothly can still have problems when it's time to deliver the baby. Your doctor and hospital are prepared to handle them. Here are some of the most common concerns: Preterm labor and premature delivery One of the greatest dangers babies face is being born too early...
PAP smear, and as well as a whole-body PET may be needed in case of an infiltrative etiology. Genetic counseling and testing for mutational analysis either specific or whole-genome sequencing is required in cases of hereditary optic atrophy (Leber’s hereditary optic atrophy, Dominant optic atrop...
Birdsong GG: Pap smear adequacy: Is our understanding sat- isfactory...or limited? Diagn Cytopathol 2001, 24:79-81.Birdsong GG: Pap smear adequacy: Is our understanding satis- factory...or limited? Diagn Cytopathol 2001;24:79-81
There was no association between age and ability to differentiate a pelvic exam from a Pap smear. The majority of women cannot distinguish a Pap smear from a pelvic exam. The unexpected finding of less understanding among younger women prompts a need for further research and invites discussion ...