Show t 1 f Pap a Smear mear Essential is isor For or Women omen Since the sooner c cervical e r v i c a l cancer is detected the greater the chance it can be treated successfully three University of l School of Medicine l physicians r recommend e com men d that Pap smears be made part of the regular check up of women in their twenties as well as in older women DR DENNIS Cavanagh and associates reported in a recent issue of the J Journal 0 urn a I of the American Medical Association that almost 30 per cent of young g women in their twenties whose Pap smears indicated abnormality abnormality abnor- abnor mality proved to have cancer of I Ithe the cervix The doctors wrote I that the truer incidence was was was' II probably closer to 40 per cent since many women with suspicious suspicious cious smears failed to return I for additional checking I Every 3 year ear a about b 0 u t I women die of this form of can can- Yet such StIch deaths could be reduced drastically according to the American Cancer Society by widespread use of the Pap test for early detection |