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More Information Needed To Improve Women's Understanding Of Pap Smear Results.
2001 MAR 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Only about half of women understand that the term "normal smear result" means there is a low risk of having or developing cervical cancer in the next five years.
The finding by health psychologists in Britain suggests, they say, that the U.K's National Health Service policy for reporting normal smears needs to change.
A total of 1,027 women, aged 20-64, were asked to imagine that they had received a normal smear result. The meaning of this result was then presented using different combinations of verbal and numerical explanations ("Women's understanding of a 'normal smear test result': Experimental questionnaire based study," British Medical Journal, March 1, 2001).
When informed only that their Pap smear result was normal, just 52% correctly understood that this entailed a residual risk of cervical ...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 5, 2003 700+ words
...identifying women with cervical cancer or its precursors...primary cause of cervical cancer. In contrast, the...identifying women with cervical cancer or precursor conditions...after an apparently normal smear. "Use of HPV testing...
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- Newspaper article from: Drug Week January 2, 2004 700+ words
...identifying women with cervical cancer or its precursors...primary cause of cervical cancer. In contrast, the...identifying women with cervical cancer or precursor conditions...after an apparently normal smear. "Use of HPV testing...
- YOUR LIFE: HEALTH: Cancer blunders killed my girl; SMEAR TESTS ARE HAILED AS...
- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) June 18, 2005 700+ words
...CAREY STEPHANIE always had normal smear test results, or so she...results showed Stephanie had cervical cancer and, at stage 3, it was...WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW CERVICAL cancer is the second most common...25-64 are screened for cervical cancer, and future tests may look...
- Cervical Cancer Awareness Survey Results Released.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 4, 2001 700+ words
...More Women Understand Link Between HPV and Cervical Cancer Internet Education Campaign Launched During Cervical Cancer Month WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- In commemoration of Cervical Cancer Month, the National Cervical Cancer Public...
- Cervical Cancer; Facts to Know.
- Newspaper article from: NWHRC Health Center - Cervical Cancer March 16, 2005 700+ words
...estimated 10,520 cases of invasive cervical cancer are expected to occur in the U.S...African-American women die from cervical cancer as Caucasian women. Hispanic and...the disease than Caucasian women. Cervical cancer rates also are rising among Vietnamese...
- Cervical cancer: putting prevention into practice.(Clinical report)
- Magazine article from: Townsend Letter Krueger, Cindy A. April 1, 2009 700+ words
Worldwide, cervical cancer ranks fifth for cancer mortality...US will have been diagnosed with cervical cancer, and nearly 4,000 will die from it. (2) Estimated new cases of cervical cancer in 2008 are 11,070 and deaths 3...
- Cervical Cancer; Prevention.
- Newspaper article from: NWHRC Health Center - Cervical Cancer March 16, 2005 700+ words
...tests is the best way of preventing cervical cancer from developing. Reducing or eliminating...associated with the development of cervical cancer can also help prevent it: * Don...genital area. To prevent invasive cervical cancer, the American Cancer Society (ACS...
- CERVICAL CANCER: UNCOVERED
- Newspaper article from: New Nation Cotton, Nzinga March 31, 2008 700+ words
...needn't be - if you know the facts Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer found...around 3,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year and it causes around 1...to cause seven out of 10 cases of cervical cancer, may have a lower cervical cancer...
