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Re: Cervical Cancer Screening with ThinPrep and High Risk HPV DNAFrom: ainsron (ainsron@sbcglobal.net)Wed Apr 28 08:11:55 2004
That may be the case, but it has some other advantages: You're not dependent on your assistant spraying the slide immediately; You don't have to worry about the missing or empty bottle of fixative in the exam room; You don't have to worry about breaking slides; You can do GC and Chlamydia on the same specimen; You don't have to explain to patients why you're not doing "that new and better type of pap" they read about in their supermarket tabloid. I also think the brush and broom used for specimen collection gets a better sample than the wooden spatula and Q-tip we used to use - at least the patients complain more about the cramping it causes. Ronald E. Ainsworth -----Original Message----- From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Braun, R. Daniel Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 4:32 AM To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L Subject: Cervical Cancer Screening with ThinPrep and High Risk HPV DNA I asked several members of our Onc division about this. The consensus of opinion was: "Why are you doing the thin prep to begin with?". There is still no evidence that it decreases either the incidence of or the death rate from cervical cancer anymore than using the standard pap smear. Dan R. Daniel Braun, MD FACOG Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Indiana University School of Medicine Indianapolis, Indiana
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