In the News
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Twenty- four years ago, I became chair of Tall Girls Inc in Australia. Interestingly, our story has now been given coverage on the Dutch TV program ‘Radar’. Footage from Insight (SBS TV 1997) was used to provide the historical context and discussion as to what happened to us, why, and what are the long- term effects? Women in Holland are now expressing their own concerns which mirror exactly those we expressed all those years ago.
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Recent research shows that DES daughters are 67% more likely to have coronary artery disease; twice as likely to have a heart attack (myocardial infarction); but are at no higher risk of stroke.
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Changes made to the National Cervical Screening Program (NCSP) in December 2017 are putting your health at risk. Make sure you are getting the correct cervical screening test.
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Radical changes made to the National Cervical Screening Program (NCSP) in December 2017 are potentially putting your health at risk. Make sure you are having regular Pap smears!
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The Pap smear is a screening test that detects abnormal cervical cells, both squamous and glandular cells. It is a long-established, proven, and very successful screening tool for cervical cancer.
The HPV test screens for HPV, a sexually transmitted infection (STI) that affects squamous cervical cells. It is not a screening tool for glandular cell cervical cancer (adenocarcinoma), a more aggressive form of cervical cancer.
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“We don’t know the reason for this increasing incidence of cervical adenocarcinoma…”
Melbourne Colposcopist Dr Ross Pagano stresses the importance of Pap smears, recommending that all young women have an annual Pap smear due to the increase in incidence of glandular cell cervical cancer in young women.