Reply #38: dingdingding [View All]

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Did I get your attention? Good. PAP is NOT a preventative! PAP is a diagnostic tool that is by no means perfect! And you know what, me getting 7 PAP smears in the 24 months preceeding my cancer diagnosis didn't prevent the cancer. I went from a normal PAP (I took part in a research study which is why so many PAPs), 6 months later my regular yearly PAP came back ASCUS, 3 months later a PAP AND biopsy that was CIN2 and a month after that a LEEP (taking a huge chunk out of my cervix due to the advancement of it in just a month, I saw the coploscopy pics, that shit spread like a motherfucker) that showed it had progressed to invasive cancer! Less than a year to go from normal to invasive cancer, and I *far* exceeded all PAP compliance recommendations. Even had the study researchers send my slides over to my doc's pathologist to see if anything had inadvertantly been missed. Nope!

I am sick and tired of people holding up PAP smears as a reason to NOT vaccinate. It's pure bullshit and shows a serious lack of knowledge of what a PAP really is (diagnostic tool ONLY). You don't cure a broken leg simply by taking an x-ray, why the fuck do people seem to think a PAP is any different? And PAP does not even diagnose cancer, further, more involved tests are needed to do that.