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Re: Prolapsed cord-->languageFrom: Henry Gregor (henrygregor@yahoo.com)Fri Feb 24 09:04:00 2006
Hi Garry Thanks for the note. I relate totally to your reactions. I don't know many patients you and I have seen who harbor some - usually unexpressed - fear of cancer for years, even decades, because of that "cervical" cancer the doc froze thirty years ago after my last baby, or some other scenario. I always wonder how many insurance applications, whether for health or life policies, have been rated to the disadvantage of patients because of these "female" cancers carried on as medical history. Hank "Garry E. Siegel, M.D." <garrys@mindspring.com> wrote: Hank: You weren't being a smart ass at all. I thought the same thing regarding CIS and depth of invasion--an oxymoron. Similarly, I bet all of us have heard of the patient who has a family history of ovarian cancer. When you ask the next few questions, like "Is that person still alive?" or "Did she have chemo?" you find that most didn't have ovarian cancer. Then, the next round of questions distinguish the reported diagnosis ("We'll, maybe it was CERVICAL cancer"), i.e. Did that person have radical surgery or radiation? Inevitably, the answer is a simple hysterectomy, which typically means a hysterectomy for dysplasia. FWIW, I don't say that dysplasia is pre-cancer. I say abnormal cells that are potentially pre-cancerous. Who knows if that works or not. Garry
-- Garry E. Siegel, M.D. Private Practice Roswell, GA
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