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Show Cervical Cancer Clinic slated A Cervical Cancer Screening Clinic will be held by the Southwest District Health Department in Cedar City on Jan. 30, 1979. Those interested should call the Health Department at 586-2437 for an appointment. The. examinations will be performed by trained nurses in a relaxed, private atmosphere. at-mosphere. All efforts will be made to reduce the waiting time to 15 minutes. Included in the examination will be a complete pelvic examination, papsmear, and breast examination. ' Cancer of the cervix can be one of the most curable of all cancers. Yet, some 11,000 women in this country die of Not only can it detect cancer, it can also reveal changes in cells that could mean cancer will develop. Thus, a Pap test can warn of cancer before the disease even starts. The Pap test is not just a once-in-a-lifetime event. Far from it. Since your body changes continuously, the possibility of cervical cancer continues throughout your life. A Pap test regularly, once each year, is the way to help protect yourself (In special cases, the doctor will advise a Pap test more of-tern of-tern than once a year). So, have a Pap test regularly, once you have matured and as long as you live. Even when you are feeling fine. And see a doctor immediately if you experience ex-perience the warning signal, abnormal bleeding. If all women would take these two simple steps, cervical cancer would soon kill no one. it each year, because their cancers aren't detected early enough. If these patients are found and properly treated before their disease has spread, most of them will live, doctors say. The disease, cervical cancer is to the growth of abnnormal cells either in the cervix or the body of the uterus. If left untreated, these abnormal cells will multiply, spread to other parts of the body, and eventually cause death. Cervical cancer is most common in women after age 35. But any women old enough to bear a child can get this cancer. In general, age does make a difference in the area of the uterus where cancer begins. The tragedy of those 11,000 annual deaths from cervical cancer is that so many of fhem are needless. A test exists now, and has existed for nearly 30 years, that can detect this cancer early, when it is most curable. It is called the Pap teast. Named for Dr. George N. Papanicolaou, who developed it. The Pap test is a simple procedure. It does not hurt and doesn't take much time. |