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East Lancashire labs coping with surge in tests for cervical cancer
9:00pm Thursday 25th June 2009
EAST Lancashire laboratories are coping well with smear test results even though some health trusts across the country are facing a backlog.
NHS East Lancashire reported the number of women coming forward for cervical screening had doubled earlier in the year, following reports of reality TV star Jade Goody’s battle with cancer.
Miss Goody, who became famous after appearing on Big Brorther, died in March this year aged just 27.
In East Lancashire the increase in demand for cervical smears doubled across all age ranges during February as Miss Goody urged women to be screened for the disease.
At the height of the increased demand, the St Peter’s Centre in Burnley saw more than 40 patients – as many as they usually deal with in a month – in just 10 days.
However NHS East Lancashire said it had coped well with the demand and urged any women wanting a smear test to contact their GP.
Figures show that early detection and treatment due to cervical screening can prevent 75 per cent of cancers developing.
A spokeswoman for the trust said: “We did see an increase in demand for smear tests across all age ranges in February but that has now dropped and we are not aware of any unexpected delays in the release of results to patients.
“Presently laboratories are coping well with the current demand.
“We see cervical cancer screening as a vital tool towards early detec-tion of cancer therefore improving the chances of the treatment being successful. We urge anyone who is concerned about cervical cancer to visit their GP surgery.”
Other health trusts were reportedly struggling to deliver test results due to the “Jade Goody factor”. Health bosses at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust and Cumbria PCT have apologised for taking an average of 12 weeks to process the results in South Lakeland and North Lancashire, which is twice the usual six-week target.
Teenage girls across East Lancashire have also taken up the new human papilloma virus vaccination, which it is hoped will slash cervical cancer rates.
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Lifeinthemix, Accrington says...
11:17pm Thu 25 Jun 09
The most important issue here, especialy for the ladies, is one opens oneself too much risk, by keep going to the doctors for needless check ups.
Misdiagnosis, pretence of illness by the doctor to give you medication from the pharmaceutical company he or she has shares in. It goes on far more than you would wish to believe.
But the real truth is diabolical.
Cancer is an industry, that means high level people have financial interests in keeping cancer big and expanding. Just look at the monies gathered in by ensuring you remain terrified of the big C, enough for you to give massive amounts of money to cancer research...just in case!
Cancer means big money.
I have studied the findings of the specialist medical operatives involved in the immediate research into HIV Aids.
The conclusions of these people today is in direct opposition to the 'official' data.
What they are saying is that cancer and the creation of, was achieved in the labs by those minds who continued their eugenics research after they left Germany and the concentration camps.
That these same minds not only achieved the ability to create cancer, they created a most devious method of administering it to the populations.
These same minds also created HIV AIDS, which they conclude HIV not to actually exist as a virus, that once diagnosed, the patient is then given a form of lukemia, which is a cancer, destroying the immune system, the patient then dies because the system cannot fight infection of any kind.
The deceptive method of administration has been through the vaccination agenda.
I have two pages dedicated to HIV AIDS, and vaccinations, their history, and the diabolical chemical, viral, and much worse, nanotechnology content of these vaccines.
The Bird flu scam, yes it is a scam, is the means to mass vaccinate the whole populations of the NATO countries, quite possibly a move they intend to push in the Autumn.
Here are the two links :
HIV AIDS
http://lifeinthemix.
co.uk/hiv_aids.html
Vaccinations
http://lifeinthemix.
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