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Grey Girl
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Posted - 23 Mar 2009 :  7:06:37 PM  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Grey Girl to your friends list Send Grey Girl a Private Message
I read somewhere in an interview that she'd not only had several abnormal smear tests since 16 but had been operated on three times and chose to ignore the letters asking her to come back again because she was frightened of having another op. Also that she said she had the genetic variety of cervical cancer (which is unusual, bearing in mind less than 1% of all cases worldwide are genetic).

Smear tests often do show abnormalities but they nearly always resolve themselves; which is why if one has an abnormal test one is asked back again after a few months. It's also why they don't like doing tests on very young women (or too frequently) cos the cervix undergoes a lot of changes and often shows abnormal cells - and getting such a test result unnecesaarily frightens the bejesus out of people (and apparently they often then refuse to have another test). But tests are important despite this because cervical cancer is very often vitually symptomless.

With the exception of the genetic variety there is pretty much only ONE way you can get it... and those who work in the field say the best way to really reduce numbers is not vaccinating young women: it's the compulsory circumcision of baby boys. Nuf zed!

Whatever the circumstances, she certainly had considerable dignity at the end. Not sure I could be like that.

Said the little eohippus, "I´m going to be a HORSE"
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