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Our last post detailed the management of a pregnant woman who was found to have multifocal carcinoma in situ and microinvasive squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix early in pregnancy. Although she had a successful outcome from the management appr...
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In our fifth post in this series, we discussed a case of a woman who had a high-grade intraepithelial abnormality(HSIL) found on her intake Pap test and was subsequently diagnosed with minimally invasive cervical cancer(stage 1A1) during her pregn...
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So today, lets digress to briefly elaborate on the sort of information I will discuss with patients when questions such as this one arise. Although almost all cervical cancer(as well as more than 50% of vaginal, vulvar, and anal cancer) are associ...
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When she left, I think she had a better understanding of her condition, although I am also not sure she was completely convinced by my reassurances. Both anogenital warts and the most common forms of cervical cancer are clearly associated with hum...
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Within the past year, I helped the GYN Oncologist at our institution care for a pregnant woman who had cervical cancer. She was 33 years old and pregnant with her third child.
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Her mother was with her and the first thing I asked was if she wanted her boyfriend there as well. Again, she shook her head no, so I asked her to Look me in my eyes and hear me loud and clear You do NOT have cervical cancer.
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Awhile back, a reader asked me to discuss cervical cancer in pregnancy. I had put the topic on the back burner, waiting for a good segue into the subject from a patient care perspective.
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These readers' comments/questions touch on a variety of issues of general interest- severe cervical dysplasia in pregnancy, protein S deficiency in a woman who lost a pregnancy at 24 weeks, and recurrent miscarriages associated with different chro...
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I recently completed a seven-part series on cervical dysplasia and cancer in pregnancy. The incentive to begin that series came from a young patient who had a mildy abnormal Pap test and extensive involvement of her vagina, vulva, and perianal are...
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Recently, I was asked to see a very interesting patient in consultation. Although a favorable outcome of her pregnancy is by no means guaranteed at this time, I am fairly sure that the timely request from her physician for a curbside consult avert...
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A reader left the following comment on a post I wrote regarding"Abnormal First Trimester Screening Results.". I have gotten this question repeatedly since we have begun offering this procedure for early aneuploidy(chromosomal abnormalities) screen...
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