WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for March, 2002: Re: home pap smears

Re: home pap smears

From: S (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:55:53 -0600 (CST)

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Actually, the DNA test does not have a false negative rate. False positives aren't going to kill you...false negatives will. Remember, it is checking for the DNA of the virus...not a few random cells that a cytologist can possibly miss after reading hundreds of them. Go to thier website and you'll be impressed. http://www.digene.com. And if you search the archives you will see that I most certainly was blasted. As was another woman later. I was told that the test was invented purely to make money and that there is no real "need"for it. I chose to ignore thier opinion, because I'm certain that a test that could possibly take business away from them does indeed worry them. I believe Ms. Nesbitt was the most vocal. That's fine. Anyone who comes here can choose to listen to advice given or take into account the human emotions that motivate them. And to answer your qustion...I did contact my MD about it and she poo-pooed the very idea of a home test as being unnecessary in this country. I think she too, was worried about the posibility of women taking control of thier own health. Regardless of what a few docs think...I will be buying it when it comes out.

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>True, there are false positives with pap smears, but you are acting as
>if this test you describe is 100% infalible. I am sure it has it's own
>false positives as well.
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>I do remember this coming up on the list before, and I do not recall
>anyone being "blasted." I've been on this forum a very long time, and
>know the Drs. quite well from being here, and they don't "blast"
>people. If you don't care for the way you were treated, you have every
>right to contact your own MD. The Drs. are here to help people, and
>they do it on their free time, what little they have. They neglect
>their families for the forums, and the last thing they need to is to be
>told they "blasted" someone, when they did not.
>

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