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Whatever happened to the annual pap smear?
The reading programs at Rhode Island College, Providence College and Roger Williams University selected the book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, as required summer reading for incoming freshman last year. This book is a nonfiction biography of a poor, black, working mother of five children who died of cervical cancer at the age of 31. The work is a masterpiece of invest...
متن کاملPap test--with or without vaginal smear?
The aim of this study was to evaluate medical and economic justification of vaginal smears as a part of primary screening for cervical carcinoma and its precursors. Study included 245.048 participants whose VCE (vaginal, cervical, endocervical) smears were examined at Department of clinical cytology of University Hospital Center Osijek from 2003 till 2008. There were 12.639 (5.2%) abnormal find...
متن کاملPap smear.
A Pap smear, also known as Papanicoloau smear, is a microscopic examination of cells scraped from the cervix and is used to detect cancerous or pre-cancerous conditions of the cervix or other medical conditions. It was named after Dr. George N. Papanicoloau, who first described it in 1928 and since its introduction, the Pap smear has helped reduce cervical cancer incidence and mortality rates b...
متن کاملRole of Bi-pap in acute respiratory failure due to acute exacerbation of COPD.
OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy of Bi-level Positive Airway Pressure (Bi-pap), administered by nasal mask in patients with acute respiratory failure due to acute exacerbation of COPD. DESIGN Prospective non-randomized study in a hospital setting. METHODS Eighteen patients were recruited from those admitted in the Chest Unit of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi with acute exacerba...
متن کاملAdherence to recommendations for follow-up to abnormal Pap tests.
OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether timely adherence rates differ by race among women with abnormal Pap tests participating in a cost-free or reduced-cost program. METHODS Eligible subjects included women aged 47-64 years who received a referral for follow-up care after an abnormal Pap test from 1999 to 2002 in South Carolina (n=330). Adherence was measured as days to receipt of follow-up care afte...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Lung, Pulmonary & Respiratory Research
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2376-0060
DOI: 10.15406/jlprr.2015.02.00045